Cross-lingual Information Retrieval for African Languages
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CIRAL Project retweeted
We're presenting our new evaluation dataset for cross-lingual information retrieval across four African languages (Hausa, Somali, Swahili and Yoruba) at the 2023 Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation!
Here's why this is exciting for me.
Work led by @AdeyemiMofe
💥💥 Catch us at #FIRE2023 starting tomorrow!
- Track Overview: 10:15am IST, Dec 15th
- Track Session: 11:00am IST, Dec 16th
We wrapped up CIRAL earlier, and we say a big thank you thank to participating teams 💯🎉🎉
Our public leaderboard is available: ciralproject.github.io/#time…
💥💥 Catch us at #FIRE2023 starting tomorrow!
- Track Overview: 10:15am IST, Dec 15th
- Track Session: 11:00am IST, Dec 16th
We wrapped up CIRAL earlier, and we say a big thank you thank to participating teams 💯🎉🎉
Our public leaderboard is available: ciralproject.github.io/#time…
⏰⏰ Reminder: Run Submission Deadline is around the corner! (10th Sep, 2023).
Track Timeline: ciralproject.github.io/#time…
For any concerns or questions, please feel free to reach out on Slack: join.slack.com/t/ciral/share…
To explore translation in crossing the language barrier, additional resources have been provided!
Thanks to HLTCOE John Hopkins University @neuclir the documents translated to English are available 🚀🚀 drive.google.com/file/d/14gH…
Translations of the queries to the various African languages using Google MT are also provided:
Train Queries: drive.google.com/file/d/16me…
Test Queries: drive.google.com/file/d/1Qv6…
📢🚀 Exciting Updates!
🔥 Test queries are out and are available in the HF repo: huggingface.co/datasets/CIRA…
🔥 Overview on participating: ciralproject.github.io/#part…
Submissions are welcome 🚀🚀
📢📢 New Updates!
💫 Train set on all 4 languages out now: huggingface.co/datasets/CIRA…
💫 Baseline on Train Samples: github.com/ciralproject/cira…
🗓️To stay up to date with information, kindly subscribe to our mailing list groups.google.com/g/ciralfir…,
Slack channel join.slack.com/t/ciral/share…
CIRAL Project retweeted
Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval for African Languages at FIRE2023 - come join our efforts!
CIRAL Track @FIRE2023 currently ongoing 🚀🚀🚀
ciralproject.github.io/#part…
Training set released: huggingface.co/datasets/CIRA…
Track participants are tasked with developing retrieval systems for documents in African languages! Track Registration and mailing list forms.gle/Rzw1yWoDHqGBXv8N7
CIRAL Track @FIRE2023 currently ongoing 🚀🚀🚀
ciralproject.github.io/#part…
Training set released: huggingface.co/datasets/CIRA…
Track participants are tasked with developing retrieval systems for documents in African languages! Track Registration and mailing list forms.gle/Rzw1yWoDHqGBXv8N7
📢 New Update!
The training set for Hausa and Yoruba are now released 🎉🎉 and are accessible here: huggingface.co/datasets/CIRA…
Looking forward to the retrieval systems that are built 💯⚒️ Guidelines for participation can be found here ciralproject.github.io/#part…
CIRAL Project retweeted
Tagging AI communities across Africa for reach: @ZindiAfrica @GhanaNLP @AISaturdaysIB @AISaturdayLagos @MasakhaneNLP @LautechDataSci @dsn_ai_network @IndabaXNigeria @DeepIndabaX_MZ @DeepRwanda @AIR_lab_MUK @DeepIndaba @dsa_org
CIRAL Project retweeted
Hi everyone!
We're challenging individuals and teams to build information retrieval systems to retrieve documents in African languages relevant to given English queries!
Our test collection is hosted at FIRE 2023 conference and we cover Hausa, Yoruba, Somali and Swahili.
Introducing CIRAL, a track at the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) 2023, with the goal of promoting research on African languages in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval. Information regarding the track can be found at the website ciralproject.github.io/
Call for Participation 📢📢📢
ciralproject.github.io/#part…
Track participants are tasked with developing retrieval systems for documents in African languages! Interested participants can register and subscribe to the mailing list forms.gle/Rzw1yWoDHqGBXv8N7
Introducing CIRAL, a track at the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) 2023, with the goal of promoting research on African languages in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval. Information regarding the track can be found at the website ciralproject.github.io/