This release packages the ArguAna slice of the BEIR (Benchmarking IR) benchmark as a flat, table-oriented dataset for retrieval evaluation and tooling. ArguAna targets counterargument retrieval: given an argument as the query, a system must rank passages from a corpus so that the best counterargument (human-judged) appears at the top.
The underlying text comes from the ArguAna Counterargument Corpus (debate-style arguments… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/orgrctera/beir_arguana.
