Research Article

PerAnSel:  A  Novel Deep Neural Network-Based System for Persian Question Answering

Table 1

Review of answer selection datasets for various languages.

DatasetLanguageTypeDomainTrainDevTest

TrecQA (raw) [23]EnglishNativeOpen1229/9482100
TrecQA (clean) [24]EnglishNativeOpen1229/946568
WikiQA [18]EnglishNativeOpen2118396633
InsuranceQA [25]EnglishNativeClose1288920002000
SelQA [26]EnglishNativeOpen55297851590
cMedQA v1 [53]ChineseNativeClose5000020002000
cMedQA v2 [54]ChineseNativeClose10000040004000
cEpilepsyQA [55]ChineseNativeClose3920490490
DBQA [56]ChineseNativeOpen877247792500
MilkQA [57]PortugueseNativeClose230750300
WikiQAar [58]ArabicTranslationOpen2118396633
CQA-MD [59]ArabicNativeClose1031250250
PerCQA [60]PersianNativeOpen69299198
PASDPersianNativeOpen1756710001000

The bold row indicates our new dataset.