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Explain Like I’m Five (ELI5)

Question AnsweringReading ComprehensionEnglish

The Explain Like I’m Five (ELI5) dataset is a English question answering resource from Fan et al. at 2019 comprising 270 examples.

About Explain Like I’m Five (ELI5)

The dataset contains 270K threads of open-ended questions that require multi-sentence answers. It was extracted from subreddit titled “Explain Like I’m Five” (ELI5), in which an online community answers questions with responses that 5-year-olds can comprehend. Facebook scripts allow you to preprocess data.

Details

Task
Question Answering, Reading Comprehension
Language
English
Format
Text
Rows / instances
270
Creator
Fan et al.
Year
2019
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