ibm-research/watsonxDocsQA
Data Description Corpus Dataset The corpus dataset contains the following fields: Field Description doc_id Unique identifier for the document title Document title as it appears on the HTML page document Textual representation of the content md_document Markdown representation of the content url Origin URL of the document Question-Answers Dataset The QA dataset includes these fields: Field Description question_id… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/ibm-research/watsonxDocsQA.
watsonxDocsQA Dataset
Overview
watsonxDocsQA is a new open-source dataset and benchmark contributed by IBM. The dataset is derived from enterprise product documentation and is designed specifically for end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) evaluation. The dataset consists of two components:
- Documents: A corpus of 1,144 text and markdown files generated by crawling enterprise documentation (main page - crawl March 2024).
- Benchmark: A set of 75 question-answer (QA) pairs with gold document labels and answers. The QA pairs are crafted as follows:
- 25 questions: Human-generated by two subject matter experts.
- 50 questions: Synthetically generated using the
tiiuae/falcon-180bmodel, then manually filtered and reviewed for quality. The methodology is detailed in Yehudai et al. 2024.
Data Description
Corpus Dataset
The corpus dataset contains the following fields:
Question-Answers Dataset
The QA dataset includes these fields:
Samples
Below is an example from the question_answers dataset:
- question_id: watsonxq2
- question: What foundation models have been built by IBM?
- correct_answer: "Foundation models built by IBM include:
- granite-13b-chat-v2
- granite-13b-chat-v1
- granite-13b-instruct-v1"
- ground_truths_contexts_ids: B2593108FA446C4B4B0EF5ADC2CD5D9585B0B63C
- ground_truths_contexts: Foundation models built by IBM \n\nIn IBM watsonx.ai, ...
Citation
If you decide to use this dataset, please consider citing our preprint
@misc{orbach2025analysishyperparameteroptimizationmethods,
title={An Analysis of Hyper-Parameter Optimization Methods for Retrieval Augmented Generation},
author={Matan Orbach and Ohad Eytan and Benjamin Sznajder and Ariel Gera and Odellia Boni and Yoav Kantor and Gal Bloch and Omri Levy and Hadas Abraham and Nitzan Barzilay and Eyal Shnarch and Michael E. Factor and Shila Ofek-Koifman and Paula Ta-Shma and Assaf Toledo},
year={2025},
eprint={2505.03452},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03452},
}Contact
For questions or feedback, please:
- Email: benjams@il.ibm.com
- Or, open an pull request/discussion in this repository.
