Christopher Akiki — accepted AI-conference papers

2023

Shared Tasks as Tutorials: A Methodical Approach

Theresa Elstner, Frank Loebe, Yamen Ajjour, Christopher Akiki, Alexander Bondarenko, Maik Fröbe +11

AAAI 2023technical

In this paper, we discuss the benefits and challenges of shared tasks as a teaching method. A shared task is a scientific event and a friendly competition to solve a research problem, the task. In terms of linking research and teaching, shared-task-based tutorials fulfill several faculty desires: th…

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2022

The BigScience ROOTS Corpus: A 1.6TB Composite Multilingual Dataset

Hugo Laurençon, Lucile Saulnier, Thomas Wang, Christopher Akiki, Albert Villanova del Moral, Teven Le Scao +48

NeurIPS 2022accept

As language models grow ever larger, the need for large-scale high-quality text datasets has never been more pressing, especially in multilingual settings. The BigScience workshop, a 1-year international and multidisciplinary initiative, was formed with the goal of researching and training large lan…

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