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most citedThe BigScience ROOTS Corpus: A 1.6TB Composite Multilingual Dataset

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cs.CL2022

Metadata Might Make Language Models Better

Kaspar Beelen, Daniel van Strien

This paper discusses the benefits of including metadata when training language models on historical collections. Using 19th-century newspapers as a case study, we extend the time-m…

cs.CL2022

BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model

BigScience Workshop, :, Teven Le Scao +391

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to wi…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

AI training resources for GLAM: a snapshot

Andrew Darby, Catherine Nicole Coleman, Claudia Engel +3

We take a snapshot of current resources available for teaching and learning AI with a focus on the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) community. The review was carri…

cs.CL2022

Entities, Dates, and Languages: Zero-Shot on Historical Texts with T0

Francesco De Toni, Christopher Akiki, Javier de la Rosa +4

In this work, we explore whether the recently demonstrated zero-shot abilities of the T0 model extend to Named Entity Recognition for out-of-distribution languages and time periods…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Documenting Geographically and Contextually Diverse Data Sources: The BigScience Catalogue of Language Data and Resources

Angelina McMillan-Major, Zaid Alyafeai, Stella Biderman +15

In recent years, large-scale data collection efforts have prioritized the amount of data collected in order to improve the modeling capabilities of large language models. This prio…