Registo de Dados de Investigação

This dataset contains a paraphrase-based query benchmark built from 100 original questions randomly sampled from Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa, an expert-curated Portuguese-language consultation service (https://ciberduvidas.iscte-iul.pt).

For each of the 100 original questions, five paraphrased reformulations were generated using the mistral-large-2512 model via the Mistral API, according to five distinct query profiles designed to simulate the range of phrasings a real user might submit:

- Synthetic: short, direct, search-engine style queries
- Formal: grammatically rigorous and highly detailed queries
- Informal: casual, conversational tone queries
- Professor: queries using technical pedagogical/linguistic terminology
- Student: direct, comprehension-focused queries

This pilot benchmark was used to validate the paraphrase-generation methodology and to conduct exploratory first-stage retrieval experiments (indexing strategy comparison, dense vs. sparse retrieval baselines, embedding models, and others), as part of a study related to the development of a RAG Conversational Agent.

Each entry includes:
- id: unique identifier of the original Ciberdúvidas question
- url: direct link to the original question on the Ciberdúvidas website
- paraphrases: object with the five paraphrased query variants
  (synthetic, formal, informal, teacher, student)