Amazon QA — Cell Phones & Accessories

A Amazon dataset of 85,865 QA pairs in Cell Phones & Accessories, 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 Cell Phones & Accessories. Suitable for question answering, sentiment analysis, product understanding, conversational AI.

#Mcauley amazon#Mobile phone#Product question answering

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Content metrics

85,865 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

unixTimeμ 1.4B ± 219.9M
min 0max 1.4B
has answer100.0% true
true 100.0%false 0.0%
is yes no57.0% true
true 57.0%false 43.0%
is open ended43.0% true
true 43.0%false 57.0%
5.4
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
5.1
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
phoneworkyesusecasefitiphonebatterysimcardworksdonknowsamsungchargerneedgalaxychargelikesureunlockedverizongoodusbscreenmobilebuydevicephonescomebluetoothnewboughtcompatiblelongplanthinkgreatcellwanttimegsmcablemodelplugserviceproductheadsethopefine
Topic clusters

Topic 0

phone
plan
verizon
buy
work
use
pay
contract

Topic 1

battery
charge
charger
usb
work
plug
samsung
power

Topic 2

headset
bluetooth
ear
phone
pair
device
music
work

Topic 3

case
fit
iphone
phone
mount
galaxy
otterbox
protector

Topic 4

sim
card
unlocked
phone
gsm
use
work
mobile

Topic 5

yes
bro
orlando
spot
hot
wife
fact
friend

Topic 6

iphone
work
ipod
ipad
gen
compatible
touch
generation

Topic 7

venezuela
work
movistar
phone
con
brazil
que
use
Top hashtags
#160413
#18
#15758
#16108
#066
#x200b6
#1285225
#1294
#1534
#15804
#16014
#16084
#24
#15713
#15863
#16053
#16063
#652793
#82433
#87223

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 171.7K records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
amazon_qa_Cell_Phones_and_Accessories
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
85,865
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, 6.8 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 — Cell Phones & Accessories [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 — Cell Phones & Accessories. 2016, doi.org/10.1109/ICDM.2016.0060.

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