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Gilles HACHEME

2 accepted papers

2023

Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages

EMNLP 2023long findings

African languages have far less in-language content available digitally, making it challenging for question answering systems to satisfy the information needs of users. Cross-lingual open-retrieval question answering (XOR QA) systems -- those that retrieve answer content from other languages while s…

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2022

A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation

NAACL 2022long

Recent advances in the pre-training for language models leverage large-scale datasets to create multilingual models. However, low-resource languages are mostly left out in these datasets. This is primarily because many widely spoken languages that are not well represented on the web and therefore ex…