Title: MLQA: Evaluating Cross-lingual Extractive Question Answering
Abstract: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07475
MLQA (MultiLingual Question Answering) is a benchmark dataset for evaluating cross-lingual question answering performance. MLQA consists of over 5K extractive QA instances (12K in English) in SQuAD format in seven languages - English, Arabic, German, Spanish, Hindi, Vietnamese and Simplified Chinese. MLQA is highly parallel, with QA instances parallel between 4 different languages on average
Homepage: https://github.com/facebookresearch/MLQA
@misc{lewis2020mlqaevaluatingcrosslingualextractive,
title={MLQA: Evaluating Cross-lingual Extractive Question Answering},
author={Patrick Lewis and Barlas Oğuz and Ruty Rinott and Sebastian Riedel and Holger Schwenk},
year={2020},
eprint={1910.07475},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07475},
}
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Tasks of the form mlqa_context-lang_question-lang.yaml
mlqa_ar_ar.yamlmlqa_ar_de.yamlmlqa_ar_vi.yamlmlqa_ar_zh.yamlmlqa_ar_en.yamlmlqa_ar_es.yamlmlqa_ar_hi.yamlmlqa_de_ar.yamlmlqa_de_de.yamlmlqa_de_vi.yamlmlqa_de_zh.yamlmlqa_de_en.yamlmlqa_de_es.yamlmlqa_de_hi.yamlmlqa_vi_ar.yamlmlqa_vi_de.yamlmlqa_vi_vi.yamlmlqa_vi_zh.yamlmlqa_vi_en.yamlmlqa_vi_es.yamlmlqa_vi_hi.yamlmlqa_zh_ar.yamlmlqa_zh_de.yamlmlqa_zh_vi.yamlmlqa_zh_zh.yamlmlqa_zh_en.yamlmlqa_zh_es.yamlmlqa_zh_hi.yamlmlqa_en_ar.yamlmlqa_en_de.yamlmlqa_en_vi.yamlmlqa_en_zh.yamlmlqa_en_en.yamlmlqa_en_es.yamlmlqa_en_hi.yamlmlqa_es_ar.yamlmlqa_es_de.yamlmlqa_es_vi.yamlmlqa_es_zh.yamlmlqa_es_en.yamlmlqa_es_es.yamlmlqa_es_hi.yamlmlqa_hi_ar.yamlmlqa_hi_de.yamlmlqa_hi_vi.yamlmlqa_hi_zh.yamlmlqa_hi_en.yamlmlqa_hi_es.yamlmlqa_hi_hi.yaml
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