Language, speech & LLMs· 2016
SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text
On the reading lists
- #51 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #9 in Language, speech & LLMs (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Established the defining extractive reading comprehension benchmark for neural NLP.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2016 (from arXiv 1606.05250)
- Citations
- 9,917 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Awards
- ACL Test of Time
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.720 · computed rank 51 · consensus 0.66, must-read 0.5, citations percentile 0.778 (2010s · language), awards 1, existing lists 0.5. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each count names its source. See the method.