Challenge: Community Question Answering web sites are used for non-factoid question answering . however, there is a scarcity of available datasets for this task . cnn.com's john m. sutter is releasing a dataset for why-QA .
Approach: They propose a dataset of 2,854 why-question and answer(s) pairs related to Adobe Photoshop usage from five CQA web sites.
Outcome: The new dataset is the first English dataset for Why-QA that focuses on a product . it can be used to build Why-Q systems, evaluate approaches and develop new models .

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