Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the BigData Lab of the University of Isfahan has presented some large-scale datasets for Question Answering, Machine Reading Comprehension, and Answer Selection for the Persian language. We are very proud to share these datasets with our colleagues. These datasets are accessible from the links below:

(1) PersianQuAD: The Native Question Answering Dataset for the Persian Language DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3157289 Github: https://github.com/BigData-IsfahanUni/PersianQuAD Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/jamshidjdmy/persianquad

(2) PerAnSel: A Novel Deep Neural Network-Based System for Persian Question Answering DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/3661286 Github: https://github.com/BigData-IsfahanUni/PerAnSel Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/jamshidjdmy/peransel

(3) ParSQuAD: Persian Question Answering Dataset based on Machine Translation of SQuAD 2.0 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.22133/ijwr.2021.293313.1101 Github: https://github.com/BigData-IsfahanUni/ParSQuAD Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/neginabadani/parsquad