The Bing Coronavirus Query Set is an intent recognition-focused dataset released by Microsoft in 2022.

This dataset primarily includes fields such as search query IDs, dates, query texts, implicit intent indicators, countries/regions, and popularity scores. It comprises approximately 317,000 samples, making it suitable for text classification research in both multilingual and monolingual contexts. The dataset consists of coronavirus-related search queries collected from the Bing Search Engine, designed to support intent classification tasks in natural language processing.

Dataset Composition

The dataset mainly includes the following fields:

• id: Unique identifier for each sample
• Date: Query date
• Query: Search query text
• IsImplicitIntent: Indicator of whether there is an implicit intent
• Country: Country or region associated with the data
• PopularityScore: Popularity score of the query

Data is split according to date ranges; for instance, data spanning from September 1, 2020, to September 30, 2020, contains 317,856 training samples.