  Recent advances in the field of language modeling have improved
state-of-the-art results on many Natural Language Processing tasks. Among them,
Reading Comprehension has made significant progress over the past few years.
However, most results are reported in English since labeled resources available
in other languages, such as French, remain scarce. In the present work, we
introduce the French Question Answering Dataset (FQuAD). FQuAD is a French
Native Reading Comprehension dataset of questions and answers on a set of
Wikipedia articles that consists of 25,000+ samples for the 1.0 version and
60,000+ samples for the 1.1 version. We train a baseline model which achieves
an F1 score of 92.2 and an exact match ratio of 82.1 on the test set. In order
to track the progress of French Question Answering models we propose a
leader-board and we have made the 1.0 version of our dataset freely available
at https://illuin-tech.github.io/FQuAD-explorer/.
