ViQA-COVID: COVID-19 Machine Reading Comprehension Dataset for Vietnamese

Anonymous

Abstract: After two years of appearance, COVID-19 has negatively affected people and normal life around the world. As in November 2021, there are more than 250 million cases and five million deaths worldwide (including nearly one million cases and over twenty-two thousand deaths in Vietnam). Economy and society are both severely affected. The variant of COVID-19, Delta, has broken disease prevention measures of countries and rapidly increased number of infections. Resources overloading in treatment and epidemics prevention is happening all over the world. It can be seen that, application of artificial intelligence (AI) to support people at this time is extremely necessary. There have been many studies applying AI to prevent COVID-19 which are extremely useful, and studies on machine reading comprehension (MRC) are also in it. Realizing that, we created the first MRC dataset about COVID-19 for Vietnamese: ViQA-COVID and can be used to build models and systems, contributing to disease prevention. Besides, ViQA-COVID is also the first multi-span extraction MRC dataset for Vietnamese, we hope that it can contribute to promoting MRC studies in Vietnamese and multilingual.