Presenting the dataset

The data, made available for non-commercial purposes (https://www.quora.com/about/tos) in a Kaggle competition (https://www.kaggle.com/c/quora-question-pairs) and on Quora's blog (https://data.quora.com/First-Quora-Dataset-Release-Question-Pairs), consists of 404,351 question pairs with 255,045 negative samples (non-duplicates) and 149,306 positive samples (duplicates). There are approximately 40% positive samples, a slight imbalance that won't need particular corrections. Actually, as reported on the Quora blog, given their original sampling strategy, the number of duplicated examples in the dataset was much higher than the non-duplicated ones. In order to set up a more balanced dataset, the negative examples were ...

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