TIGQA:An Expert Annotated Question Answering Dataset in Tigrinya

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Main Authors: Teklehaymanot, Hailay, Fazlija, Dren, Ganguly, Niloy, Patro, Gourab K., Nejdl, Wolfgang
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Published: 2024
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author Teklehaymanot, Hailay
Fazlija, Dren
Ganguly, Niloy
Patro, Gourab K.
Nejdl, Wolfgang
author_facet Teklehaymanot, Hailay
Fazlija, Dren
Ganguly, Niloy
Patro, Gourab K.
Nejdl, Wolfgang
contents 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 educational dataset consisting of 2.68K 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 pretrained models.The notable disparities between human performance and best model performance underscore the potential for further 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.
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spellingShingle TIGQA:An Expert Annotated Question Answering Dataset in Tigrinya
Teklehaymanot, Hailay
Fazlija, Dren
Ganguly, Niloy
Patro, Gourab K.
Nejdl, Wolfgang
Computation and Language
cs.CL
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 educational dataset consisting of 2.68K 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 pretrained models.The notable disparities between human performance and best model performance underscore the potential for further 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.
title TIGQA:An Expert Annotated Question Answering Dataset in Tigrinya
topic Computation and Language
cs.CL
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17194