Question-Answering in a Low-resourced Language: Benchmark Dataset and Models for Tigrinya (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Question-Answering (QA) has seen significant advances in recent years, achieving near human-level performance over some benchmarks. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a native QA dataset for an East African language, Tigrinya, to build similar resources for related languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is applicable to constructing similar resources for related languages. |
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