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StackOverflow QA Dataset for RAG

Description

This dataset contains question–answer pairs extracted from the public StackOverflow data dump.

Each example consists of a question with its accepted answer, along with metadata such as tags, scores, and engagement statistics. The dataset is designed for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, and information retrieval tasks.

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Dataset Structure

Each row is a JSON object with the following fields:

• question_id — unique ID of the question
• answer_id — unique ID of the accepted answer
• title — question title
• question_body — cleaned text of the question
• answer_body — cleaned text of the accepted answer
• question_text — title + question body
• combined_text — title + question + answer (used for retrieval)
• tags — list of StackOverflow tags
• question_score — score of the question
• answer_score — score of the answer
• view_count — number of views
• answer_count — number of answers
• favorite_count — number of favorites
• question_creation_date — timestamp
• answer_creation_date — timestamp