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Approach: They propose a Chinese long-form question answering dataset called WebCPM . the dataset is based on a web search interface that engages with a search engine in real time .
Outcome: The proposed dataset generates answers that are no worse than human-written ones . the dataset is the first Chinese LFQA dataset .

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