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
๐ฅ๐ฅ 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 ๐ฏ๐๐
Our public leaderboard is available: https://t.co/tj6A0b7loi
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
โฐโฐ 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
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 ๐๐ https://t.co/DKLU6btSZm
๐ข๐ Exciting Updates!
๐ฅ Test queries are out and are available in the HF repo: https://t.co/CRoT30byzu
๐ฅ Overview on participating: https://t.co/izqxtEIEqT
Submissions are welcome ๐๐
๐ข๐ข New Updates!
๐ซ Train set on all 4 languages out now: https://t.co/CRoT30byzu
๐ซ Baseline on Train Samples: https://t.co/pkYLMO2ybw
๐๏ธTo stay up to date with information, kindly subscribe to our mailing list https://t.co/UlvUKMcPiz,
Slack channel https://t.co/M2cvYwf9Qh
CIRAL Track @FIRE2023 currently ongoing ๐๐๐
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
๐ข New Update!
The training set for Hausa and Yoruba are now released ๐๐ and are accessible here: https://t.co/L0KgaPKgii
Looking forward to the retrieval systems that are built ๐ฏโ๏ธ Guidelines for participation can be found here https://t.co/izqxtEIEqT
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.
Call for Participation ๐ข๐ข๐ข
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
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