General Description

You will be predicting whether a question asked on Quora is sincere or not.

An insincere question is defined as a question intended to make a statement rather than look for helpful answers. Some characteristics that can signify that a question is insincere:

• Has a non-neutral tone
• Has an exaggerated tone to underscore a point about a group of people
• Is rhetorical and meant to imply a statement about a group of people
• Is disparaging or inflammatory
• Suggests a discriminatory idea against a protected class of people, or seeks confirmation of a stereotype
• Makes disparaging attacks/insults against a specific person or group of people
• Based on an outlandish premise about a group of people
• Disparages against a characteristic that is not fixable and not measurable
• Isn't grounded in reality
• Based on false information, or contains absurd assumptions
• Uses sexual content (incest, bestiality, pedophilia) for shock value, and not to seek genuine answers
• The training data includes the question that was asked, and whether it was identified as insincere (target = 1). - The ground-truth labels contain some amount of noise: they are not guaranteed to be perfect.

Data Fields

• qid - unique question identifier
• question_text - Quora question text
• target - a question labeled "insincere" has a value of 1, otherwise 0