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BeIR/scifact

Name: scifact
Creator: BeIR
License: cc-by-sa-4.0
Keywords: task_categories:zero-shot-classification, task_categories:text-retrieval, task_ids:document-retrieval, task_ids:entity-linking-retrieval, task_ids:fact-checking-retrieval, multilinguality:monolingual, language:en, license:cc-by-sa-4.0, size_categories:1K<n<10K, format:parquet, modality:text, library:datasets, library:pandas, library:polars, library:mlcroissant

Dataset Card for BEIR Benchmark scifact is one of the datasets from the Fact Checking task within BEIR, measuring scientific article retrieval for a given scientific claim. Dataset Summary BEIR is a heterogeneous benchmark built from 18 diverse datasets representing 9 information retrieval tasks. Fact-checking: FEVER, Climate-FEVER, SciFact Question-Answering: NQ, HotpotQA, FiQA-2018 Bio-Medical IR: TREC-COVID, BioASQ, NFCorpus News Retrieval: TREC-NEWS, Robust04… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/BeIR/scifact.

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Author / organization	BeIR
License (as declared)	cc-by-sa-4.0
Downloads	26K (as reported by Hugging Face)
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Created	5 June 2022
Last updated at source	9 April 2026

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