---
license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
language:
- es
tags:
- Answer Search classification
pretty_name: Spanish-QC
---

### Dataset Description



**Paper**: [BRUJA: Question Classification for Spanish. Using Machine Translation and an English Classifier.](https://aclanthology.org/W06-1906.pdf)

**Point of Contact**: magc@ujaen.es

This resource is 6305 questions in Spanish labeled for Answer Search classification, following the taxonomy defined in the article "X. Li and D. Roth. Learning Question Classifiers", which has the following general and detailed categories:

- ABBR: abbreviation, expansion
- DESC: definition, description, mode, motif
- ENTY: animal, body, color, creation, currency, disease/medical, event, food, instrument, language, letter, other, plant, product, religion, sport, substance, symbol, technique, term, vehicle, word
- HUM: description, group, individual, title
- LOC: city, country, mountain, other, state, other, state
- NUM: code, count, date, distance, distance, money, order, other, percentage, period, speed, temperature, size, weight

Starting from a set of labeled questions for English, this resource has been generated with various questions in Spanish labeled and reviewed by 3 people.

### Acknowledgments
This work has been supported by the Spanish Government (MCYT) with grant TIC2003-07158-C04-04.

### Licensing Information

Spanish-QC is released under the [Apache-2.0 License](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0). 

### Citation Information
```bibtex
@inproceedings{a-garcia-cumbreras-etal-2006-bruja,
    title = "{BRUJA}: Question Classification for {S}panish. Using Machine Translationand an {E}nglish Classifier",
    author = "Garc{\'\i}a Cumbreras, Miguel {\'A}.  and
      Ure{\~n}a L{\'o}pez, L. Alfonso  and
      Mart{\'\i}nez Santiago, Fernando",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Question Answering - {MLQA} {`}06",
    year = "2006",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/W06-1906",
}
```