Datasets:

HiTZ
/

EusTrivia

task_categories:
  - question-answering
language:
  - eu
pretty_name: TriviaEus
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: test
        path: triviaeus.jsonl

Dataset Card for EusTrivia

EusTrivia consists of 1,715 trivia questions from multiple online sources. 56.3% of the questions are elementary level (grades 3-6), while the rest are considered challenging. A significant portion of the questions focus specifically on the Basque Country, its language and culture. Each multiple-choice question contains two, three or four choices (3.84 on average) and a single correct answer. Five areas of knowledge are covered:

Humanities and Natural Sciences (27.8%): This category encompasses questions about history, geography, biology, ecology and other social and natural sciences.
Leisure and Art (24.5%): This category includes questions on sports and athletes, performative and plastic arts and artists, architecture, cultural events, and related topics.
Music (16.0%): Here are grouped all the questions about music and musicians, both classical and contemporary.
Language and Literature (17.1%): This category is concerned with all kinds of literature productions and writers, as well as metalinguistic questions (e.g., definitions, synonyms, and word usage).
Mathematics and ICT (14.5%): This category covers mathematical problems and questions about ICT, as well as questions about people known for their contributions to these fields of knowledge.
Curated by: HiTZ Research Center & IXA Research group (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU)
Language(s) (NLP): Basque (eu)
📒 Blog Post: Latxa: An Open Language Model and Evaluation Suite for Basque
📖 Paper: Latxa: An Open Language Model and Evaluation Suite for Basque
💻 Code: hitz-zentroa/latxa
📧 Contact: [email protected]

Example

Basque Example:

Galdera: Zenbat kilo dauka tona batek?
A. 10.000 kilo
B. 1.000.000 kilo
C. 1.000 kilo
D. 100 kilo
Erantzuna: C

English Translation:

Question: How many kilograms are there in a tonne? 
A. 10,000 kilos 
B. 1,000,000 kilos 
C. 1,000 kilos 
D. 100 kilos 
Answer: C

Citation

@misc{etxaniz2024latxa,
      title={{L}atxa: An Open Language Model and Evaluation Suite for {B}asque}, 
      author={Julen Etxaniz and Oscar Sainz and Naiara Perez and Itziar Aldabe and German Rigau and Eneko Agirre and Aitor Ormazabal and Mikel Artetxe and Aitor Soroa},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2403.20266},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}