# WEBQs

### Paper

Title: `Semantic Parsing on Freebase from Question-Answer Pairs`

Abstract: `https://cs.stanford.edu/~pliang/papers/freebase-emnlp2013.pdf`

WebQuestions is a benchmark for question answering. The dataset consists of 6,642
question/answer pairs. The questions are supposed to be answerable by Freebase, a
large knowledge graph. The questions are mostly centered around a single named entity.
The questions are popular ones asked on the web (at least in 2013).

Homepage: `https://worksheets.codalab.org/worksheets/0xba659fe363cb46e7a505c5b6a774dc8a`


### Citation

```
@inproceedings{berant-etal-2013-semantic,
    title = "Semantic Parsing on {F}reebase from Question-Answer Pairs",
    author = "Berant, Jonathan  and
      Chou, Andrew  and
      Frostig, Roy  and
      Liang, Percy",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2013",
    address = "Seattle, Washington, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/D13-1160",
    pages = "1533--1544",
}
```

### Groups and Tasks

#### Groups

* `freebase`

#### Tasks

* `webqs`: `Questions with multiple accepted answers.`

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