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cs.IR2024

Extending Translate-Train for ColBERT-X to African Language CLIR

Eugene Yang, Dawn J. Lawrie, Paul McNamee +1

This paper describes the submission runs from the HLTCOE team at the CIRAL CLIR tasks for African languages at FIRE 2023. Our submissions use machine translation models to translat…

cs.IR20242 cited

Overview of the TREC 2023 NeuCLIR Track

Dawn Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, James Mayfield +4

The principal goal of the TREC Neural Cross-Language Information Retrieval (NeuCLIR) track is to study the impact of neural approaches to cross-language information retrieval. The…

cs.IR2024

Translate-Distill: Learning Cross-Language Dense Retrieval by Translation and Distillation

Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, James Mayfield +2

Prior work on English monolingual retrieval has shown that a cross-encoder trained using a large number of relevance judgments for query-document pairs can be used as a teacher to…

cs.IR2022

Patapasco: A Python Framework for Cross-Language Information Retrieval Experiments

Cash Costello, Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie +1

While there are high-quality software frameworks for information retrieval experimentation, they do not explicitly support cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). To fill this…

cs.IR2022

HC4: A New Suite of Test Collections for Ad Hoc CLIR

Dawn Lawrie, James Mayfield, Douglas Oard +1

HC4 is a new suite of test collections for ad hoc Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), with Common Crawl News documents in Chinese, Persian, and Russian, topics in English…

cs.IR2022

Transfer Learning Approaches for Building Cross-Language Dense Retrieval Models

Suraj Nair, Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie +5

The advent of transformer-based models such as BERT has led to the rise of neural ranking models. These models have improved the effectiveness of retrieval systems well beyond that…