Papers by Joel Barry
SARAL: A Low-Resource Cross-Lingual Domain-Focused Information Retrieval System for Effective Rapid Document Triage (P19-3)
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Elizabeth Boschee, Joel Barry, Jayadev Billa, Marjorie Freedman, Thamme Gowda, Constantine Lignos, Chester Palen-Michel, Michael Pust, Banriskhem Kayang Khonglah, Srikanth Madikeri, Jonathan May, Scott Miller
| Challenge: | a new cross-lingual information retrieval system for low-resource languages is available in less-frequently-taught languages . a multilingual system can search for relevant information in a haystack of documents in swahili or Somali . human-driven approaches to this problem are complicated in 'low-resourced' languages aaron sagar: "the key role played by humans in triaging results is complicated" |
| Approach: | They propose an end-to-end cross-lingual information retrieval system for low-resource languages . the system enables English speakers to search foreign language repositories using English queries . it summarizes the retrieved documents in English with respect to a particular information need . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system achieves top performance in the most recent IARPA MATERIAL CLIR+summarization evaluations. |
Massively Multi-Lingual Event Understanding: Extraction, Visualization, and Search (2023.acl-demo)
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| Challenge: | Using only English training data, ISI-Clear makes global events available on-demand in 100 languages . Using a fixed task, events may still shift from day to day . |
| Approach: | They propose a cross-lingual zero-shot event extraction system that makes global events available on-demand in 100 languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can extract events from non-English documents in 100 languages. |