CIRAL Project

Cross-lingual Information Retrieval for African Languages

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

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

[CIRAL Project @CiralProject]

💥💥 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: https://t.co/tj6A0b7loi

[CIRAL Project @CiralProject]

Translations of the queries to the various African languages using Google MT are also provided:

Train Queries: https://t.co/bqJILwVmfs
Test Queries: https://t.co/zHDnrYHlCC

[CIRAL Project @CiralProject]

⏰⏰ Reminder: Run Submission Deadline is around the corner! (10th Sep, 2023).

Track Timeline: https://t.co/tj6A0b7loi
For any concerns or questions, please feel free to reach out on Slack: https://t.co/M2cvYwf9Qh

[CIRAL Project @CiralProject]

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 🚀🚀 https://t.co/DKLU6btSZm

[CIRAL Project @CiralProject]

📢🚀 Exciting Updates!

🔥 Test queries are out and are available in the HF repo: https://t.co/CRoT30byzu

🔥 Overview on participating: https://t.co/izqxtEIEqT

Submissions are welcome 🚀🚀

[CIRAL Project @CiralProject]

📢📢 New Updates!

💫 Train set on all 4 languages out now: https://t.co/CRoT30byzu

💫 Baseline on Train Samples: https://t.co/pkYLMO2ybw

🗓️To stay up to date with information, kindly subscribe to our mailing list https://t.co/UlvUKMcPiz,
Slack channel https://t.co/M2cvYwf9Qh

[Jimmy Lin @lintool]

Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval for African Languages at FIRE2023 - come join our efforts!

[CIRAL Project @CiralProject]

CIRAL Track @FIRE2023 currently ongoing 🚀🚀🚀
https://t.co/izqxtEJcgr

Training set released: https://t.co/L0KgaPKO7Q

Track participants are tasked with developing retrieval systems for documents in African languages! Track Registration and mailing list https://t.co/u2MMzpDVkq

[CIRAL Project @CiralProject]

📢 New Update!

The training set for Hausa and Yoruba are now released 🎉🎉 and are accessible here: https://t.co/L0KgaPKgii

Looking forward to the retrieval systems that are built 💯⚒️ Guidelines for participation can be found here https://t.co/izqxtEIEqT

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

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

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

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.

[CIRAL Project @CiralProject]

Call for Participation 📢📢📢
https://t.co/izqxtEIEqT

Track participants are tasked with developing retrieval systems for documents in African languages! Interested participants can register and subscribe to the mailing list https://t.co/u2MMzpDnuS

[CIRAL Project @CiralProject]

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 https://t.co/OVzY7OYsnB