README.md

MLQA

Paper

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

Citation

@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},
}

Groups, Tags, and Tasks

Groups

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Tasks

Tasks of the form mlqa_context-lang_question-lang

• mlqa_ar_ar
• mlqa_ar_de
• mlqa_ar_vi
• mlqa_ar_zh
• mlqa_ar_en
• mlqa_ar_es
• mlqa_ar_hi
• mlqa_de_ar
• mlqa_de_de
• mlqa_de_vi
• mlqa_de_zh
• mlqa_de_en
• mlqa_de_es
• mlqa_de_hi
• mlqa_vi_ar
• mlqa_vi_de
• mlqa_vi_vi
• mlqa_vi_zh
• mlqa_vi_en
• mlqa_vi_es
• mlqa_vi_hi
• mlqa_zh_ar
• mlqa_zh_de
• mlqa_zh_vi
• mlqa_zh_zh
• mlqa_zh_en
• mlqa_zh_es
• mlqa_zh_hi
• mlqa_en_ar
• mlqa_en_de
• mlqa_en_vi
• mlqa_en_zh
• mlqa_en_en
• mlqa_en_es
• mlqa_en_hi
• mlqa_es_ar
• mlqa_es_de
• mlqa_es_vi
• mlqa_es_zh
• mlqa_es_en
• mlqa_es_es
• mlqa_es_hi
• mlqa_hi_ar
• mlqa_hi_de
• mlqa_hi_vi
• mlqa_hi_zh
• mlqa_hi_en
• mlqa_hi_es
• mlqa_hi_hi

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