---
language:
  - es
  - en
bigbio_language:
  - English
  - Spanish
license: mit
bigbio_license_shortname: MIT
multilinguality: multilingual
pretty_name: HEAD-QA
homepage: https://aghie.github.io/head-qa/
bigbio_pubmed: false
bigbio_public: true
bigbio_tasks:
  - QUESTION_ANSWERING
---


# Dataset Card for HEAD-QA

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** https://aghie.github.io/head-qa/
- **Pubmed:** False
- **Public:** True
- **Tasks:** QA

HEAD-QA is a multi-choice HEAlthcare Dataset. The questions come from exams to access a specialized position in the 
Spanish healthcare system, and are challenging even for highly specialized humans. They are designed by the 
Ministerio de Sanidad, Consumo y Bienestar Social. The dataset contains questions about following topics: medicine, 
nursing, psychology, chemistry, pharmacology and biology.


## Citation Information

```
@inproceedings{vilares-gomez-rodriguez-2019-head,
    title = "{HEAD}-{QA}: A Healthcare Dataset for Complex Reasoning",
    author = "Vilares, David  and G{\'o}mez-Rodr{\'i}guez, Carlos",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    month = jul,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Florence, Italy",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1092",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/P19-1092",
    pages = "960--966"
}
```