Cross-lingual Information Retrieval for African Languages

Joined June 2023
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
πŸ’₯πŸ’₯ 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 πŸ’―πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰ Our public leaderboard is available: ciralproject.github.io/#time…
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Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval for African Languages at FIRE2023 - come join our efforts!
CIRAL Track @FIRE2023 currently ongoing πŸš€πŸš€πŸš€ 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
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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/
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