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  - name: question
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# Dataset Card for Dataset Name
This is dataset is ported to huggingface directly from the [semantic-systems/amharic-qa](https://github.com/semantic-systems/amharic-qa) repo. Please read the paper in the provided link


- **Curated by:** Tilahun Abedissa, Ricardo Usbeck, Yaregal Assabie
- **Shared by:** Dagim Ashenafi
- **Language(s) (NLP):** Amharic
- **License:** MIT

### Dataset Sources 

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- **Repository:** [https://github.com/semantic-systems/amharic-qa](https://github.com/semantic-systems/amharic-qa)
- **Paper:** [https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03290](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03290)


## Dataset Structure
This dataset contains information in a tabular format with three columns ('question, 'answer', 'context') and a total of 2617 rows. Each row represents a data example with a question and its corresponding answer.


### Source Data
Arrticles collected from Amharic Wikipedia dump file.

#### Data Collection and Processing
Crowdsourcing and annotated using the Haystack QA annotation tool. 

## Citation
Abedissa, T., Usbeck, R., & Assabie, Y. (Year). AmQA: Amharic Question Answering Dataset. Addis Ababa University, Universität Hamburg. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0191-7211



## Dataset Card Authors
Dagim Ashenafi


## Dataset Card Contact
dagim.ashenafi.birru@gmail.com