AfriQA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages
VerifiedAfriQA is the first cross-lingual open-retrieval question answering benchmark for African languages, with more than 12,000 XOR-QA examples across 10 African languages. The paper shows that current automatic translation and multilingual retrieval methods perform poorly for these languages, where in-language digital content is scarce.
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