Amazon QA — Beauty

A Amazon dataset of 42,422 QA pairs in Beauty, collected by Wan and McAuley via Amazon API. Each record contains question, answer, question type, answer type, ASIN, timestamp. Amazon product Q&A data for Beauty. Suitable for question answering, sentiment analysis, product understanding, conversational AI.

#Beauty#Product question answering#Question answering

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Content metrics

42,422 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

unixTimeμ 1.3B ± 269.9M
min 0max 1.4B
has answer100.0% true
true 100.0%false 0.0%
is yes no42.6% true
true 42.6%false 57.4%
is open ended57.4% true
true 57.4%false 42.6%
5.4
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
5.2
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
hairuseproductcoloryeslikeskindonbottleknowgoodworklonglightsureneedthinkoilwanthopehelpstimedryamazongreatdarkboxbuyingredientsworksfacecomeboughtsizeredproductswaterbrownloveyearsbestoriginaldifferentdryerdoesnsmelldaylittlecreamhelp
Topic clusters

Topic 0

skin
face
use
cream
eye
moisturizer
lotion
product

Topic 1

ingredient
oil
list
contain
extract
soap
acid
free

Topic 2

mirror
plug
inch
cord
wall
voltage
adapter
battery

Topic 3

smell
scent
fragrance
perfume
like
strong
rose
floral

Topic 4

dryer
diffuser
fit
blow
comb
nozzle
hair
ceramic

Topic 5

seal
jar
come
plastic
pump
container
box
bottle

Topic 6

use
yes
month
day
week
work
age
product

Topic 7

hair
dry
use
scalp
wet
product
work
grow

Topic 8

date
expiration
expire
product
year
bottle
old
discontinue

Topic 9

yes
mil
yep
mls
bht
yea
cycle
delicate

Topic 10

ship
shipping
item
address
thank
canada
order
hello

Topic 11

nail
polish
clipper
blade
coat
foundation
formula
gel
Show all 22 topics

Topic 12

hair
color
gray
blonde
treat
dye
white
shampoo

Topic 13

brush
bristle
rotate
handle
long
inch
clean
hair

Topic 14

wax
water
stain
floor
wash
use
clean
clothe

Topic 15

bottle
new
picture
want
square
believe
different
bluish

Topic 16

foot
toe
table
weight
glove
pound
fit
weigh

Topic 17

fake
amazon
sell
seller
product
genuine
review
real

Topic 18

package
pack
order
instruction
come
packaging
juicy
carry

Topic 19

bottle
cologne
smell
scent
spray
fragrance
original
perfume

Topic 20

china
manufacture
country
amazon
mexico
usa
product
spain

Topic 21

curl
hair
curly
straighten
iron
straight
curler
flat
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Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 84.8K records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
amazon_qa_Beauty
Authors
Wan, Mengting; McAuley, Julian
Year
2016
Source paper
Modeling Ambiguity, Subjectivity, and Diverging Viewpoints in Opinion Question Answering Systems
DOI / arXiv
10.1109/ICDM.2016.0060
License
No licence stated by the authors (citation requested)
Records
42,422
Languages
en
Collected
2013-2015 (2010s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~jmcauley/datasets.html#amazon_qa link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 4.0 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@inproceedings{Wan_2016,
  title     = {Modeling Ambiguity, Subjectivity, and Diverging Viewpoints in Opinion Question Answering Systems},
  url       = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDM.2016.0060},
  doi       = {10.1109/icdm.2016.0060},
  booktitle = {2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  author    = {Wan, Mengting and McAuley, Julian},
  year      = {2016},
  month     = Dec,
  pages     = {489–498}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Wan, M., & McAuley, J. (2016). Amazon QA — Beauty [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDM.2016.0060

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Wan, Mengting, and Julian McAuley. Amazon QA — Beauty. 2016, doi.org/10.1109/ICDM.2016.0060.

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