FaqBacen: Brazilian Central Bank FAQ Retrieval Benchmark

Brazilian Portuguese questions and answers for evaluating retrieval systems on financial regulation topics. The dataset contains 373 test questions over a pool of 1,673 unique regulatory answers from the Banco Central do Brasil's public FAQ. It was created by mteb-pt and is part of the native Brazilian-Portuguese MTEB sub-benchmark.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking Portuguese-language retrieval models based on the described 373 test questions.
• Training question-answering systems for the financial domain based on the 1,673 regulatory answers.
• Evaluating cross-lingual transfer for financial NLP tasks based on the native Brazilian Portuguese content.
• Studying government-citizen communication patterns based on the FAQ structure mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Contains 373 specific test questions for evaluation.
• Draws from a defined pool of 1,673 unique regulatory answers.
• Data is native Brazilian Portuguese, mined from real-world government sources.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the full answer pool is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2026-06-28 00:18:01; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Banco Central do Brasil (BACEN) public FAQ.

Collection Method

Likely mined and structured from the official FAQ source.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-28 00:18:01.

Geography

Brazil