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name: qa-reading description: "Guides question-answering and reading-comprehension dataset discovery in CLUEDatasetSearch, including DuReader, SQuAD, NewsQA, CMRC, CAIL, cMedQA, CoQA, and search-log QA resources." disable-model-invocation: true metadata: disco-role: operating license: NO_LICENSE

QA and Reading Dataset Route

Use this sub-skill when the user intent matches one of these signals:

• question answering, open-domain QA, answer selection
• reading comprehension, cloze, yes/no, multi-document or legal RC
• DuReader, SQuAD, CMRC, CAIL, NewsQA, WikiQA, MS MARCO

Read references/dataset-selection.md for QA/RC comparisons and references/troubleshooting.md for duplicate names and access issues.

Fast workflow

1. Restate the user's requested task, language, domain, and output need.
2. Search the bundled root index before recommending a row:

python ../../scripts/search_dataset_index.py --query dureader
python ../../scripts/search_dataset_index.py --category reading-comprehension --query legal
python ../../scripts/search_dataset_index.py --query SQuAD --limit 0

3. Compare title, category, description, keywords, provider, license, paper, and note fields.
4. Warn that CLUEDatasetSearch is a catalogue: no dataset files are bundled and external access must be verified.
5. If the request belongs to another family, route to the sibling sub-skill named below instead of forcing a weak match.

Boundary routes

• Root overview and cross-category search: ../../SKILL.md.
• Shared table schema and duplicate handling: ../../references/catalogue-overview.md.
• Access, license, privacy, and link caveats: ../../references/access-and-license-caveats.md.
• Full bundled index: ../../references/dataset-index.json.
• Cross-cutting troubleshooting: ../../references/troubleshooting.md.

Output pattern

When answering, include:

• candidate dataset title and category;
• why it fits the task;
• language/domain/scale hints from the catalogue;
• provider and source URL when present in the bundled index;
• license/access caveat, especially if blank or competition-hosted;
• what the user must verify upstream before download, redistribution, or benchmark use.

Do not tell future agents to open or run files from the original repository checkout.