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Task-aware Retrieval with Instructions
Akari Asai, Timo Schick, Patrick Lewis +5
We study the problem of retrieval with instructions, where users of a retrieval system explicitly describe their intent along with their queries. We aim to develop a general-purpos…
When Not to Trust Language Models: Investigating Effectiveness of Parametric and Non-Parametric Memories
Alex Mallen, Akari Asai, Victor Zhong +3
Despite their impressive performance on diverse tasks, large language models (LMs) still struggle with tasks requiring rich world knowledge, implying the limitations of relying sol…
Beyond Counting Datasets: A Survey of Multilingual Dataset Construction and Necessary Resources
Xinyan Velocity Yu, Akari Asai, Trina Chatterjee +2
While the NLP community is generally aware of resource disparities among languages, we lack research that quantifies the extent and types of such disparity. Prior surveys estimatin…
MIA 2022 Shared Task: Evaluating Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for 16 Diverse Languages
Akari Asai, Shayne Longpre, Jungo Kasai +6
We present the results of the Workshop on Multilingual Information Access (MIA) 2022 Shared Task, evaluating cross-lingual open-retrieval question answering (QA) systems in 16 typo…
RealTime QA: What's the Answer Right Now?
Jungo Kasai, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Yoichi Takahashi +7
We introduce REALTIME QA, a dynamic question answering (QA) platform that announces questions and evaluates systems on a regular basis (weekly in this version). REALTIME QA inquire…
ATTEMPT: Parameter-Efficient Multi-task Tuning via Attentional Mixtures of Soft Prompts
Akari Asai, Mohammadreza Salehi, Matthew E. Peters +1
This work introduces a new multi-task, parameter-efficient language model (LM) tuning method that learns to transfer knowledge across different tasks via a mixture of soft prompts-…