The ROOTS Search Tool: Data Transparency for LLMs (2023.acl-demo)

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Challenge: a 1.6TB multilingual text corpus is currently the largest language model . large language models are ubiquitous in modern NLP, used directly to generate text and as building blocks in downstream applications.
Approach: They propose a search engine for the 1.6TB multilingual ROOTS corpus offering both fuzzy and exact search capabilities.
Outcome: The ROOTS Search Tool is an open-source search engine for the 1.6TB multilingual ROOTs corpus.

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