TIGQA: An Expert-Annotated Question-Answering Dataset in Tigrinya

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

TIGQA: An Expert-Annotated Question-Answering Dataset in Tigrinya

Original language description

The absence of explicitly tailored, accessible annotated datasets for educational purposes presents a notable obstacle for NLP tasks in languages with limited resources. This study initially explores the feasibility of using machine translation (MT) to convert an existing dataset into a Tigrinya dataset in SQuAD format. As a result, we present TIGQA, an expert-annotated dataset containing 2,685 question-answer pairs covering 122 diverse topics such as climate, water, and traffic. These pairs are from 537 context paragraphs in publicly accessible Tigrinya and Biology books. Through comprehensive analyses, we demonstrate that the TIGQA dataset requires skills beyond simple word matching, requiring both single-sentence and multiple-sentence inference abilities. We conduct experiments using state-of-the-art MRC methods, marking the first exploration of such models on TIGQA. Additionally, we estimate human performance on the dataset and juxtapose it with the results obtained from pre-trained models. The notable disparities between human performance and the best model performance underscore the potential for future enhancements to TIGQA through continued research. Our dataset is freely accessible via the provided link to encourage the research community to address the challenges in the Tigrinya MRC. © 2024 ELRA Language Resource Association: CC BY-NC 4.0.

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Jt. Int. Conf. Comput. Linguist., Lang. Resour. Eval., LREC-COLING - Main Conf. Proc.

ISBN

978-249381410-4

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Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

16142-16161

Publisher name

European Language Resources Association (ELRA)

Place of publication

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Event location

Torino, Italia

Event date

Jan 1, 2025

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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