Zhihu Q&A on Ten Popular Topics

Comprising 3,000 questions and 230,000 answers from the Chinese Q&A platform Zhihu. The questions are sourced from 10 popular topics including Culture, Education, Art, and Technology.

Use Cases

• Analyze answer patterns and user engagement across 10 topic categories like 'Culture' and 'Psychology'
• Train a text generation model on question and answer pairs to simulate Q&A interactions
• Study the linguistic structure and content of Chinese social media questions and answers

Strengths

• Contains 230,000 answers providing substantial textual data
• Questions are categorized into 10 distinct popular topics
• Dataset was last updated in May 2023

Limitations

• The specific columns and data structure are unknown
• Sample data and file formats are unavailable for inspection
• Potential geographic and linguistic bias towards Chinese users and content

Provenance

Source

zhihu.com

Collection Method

Questions and answers scraped from the platform

Freshness

2023-05-25