Multilingual Question Answering (2/24/2022)
Lecture: (by Vijay Viswanathan and Graham Neubig)
- Question Answering fundamentals
- Multilingual Open-Retrieval QA
- Multilingual Knowledge Graph QA
Language in 10: Japanese
Slides: Multilingual QA
Discussion: Read one of the following papers/tutorials (note: the first two of these references are quite technical - do not spend more than a couple hours reading the paper, as long as you get the main idea)
- One Question Answering Model for Many Languages with Cross-lingual Dense Passage Retrieval (Asai et al. 2021)
- Improving Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer for Multilingual Question Answering over Knowledge Graph (Zhou et al. 2021)
- Multi-domain Multilingual Question Answering (Focus on the "Multilingual QA Models" section) (Ruder 2021 [blog post])
- Do you think the methods in this paper would work for your language?
- What other resources or strategies might you use to solve and evaluate this task?
References:
- Reference: Multi-domain Multilingual Question Answering (based on EMNLP 2021 Tutorial) (Ruder 2021 [blog post])
- Reference: One Question Answering Model for Many Languages with Cross-lingual Dense Passage Retrieval (Asai et al. 2021)
- Reference: Improving Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer for Multilingual Question Answering over Knowledge Graph (Zhou et al. 2021)
- Reference: TyDi QA: A Benchmark for Information-Seeking Question Answering in Typologically Diverse Languages (Clark et al. 2020)
- Reference: Speech and Language Processing, 3rd Edition. Chapter 23: "Question Answering" (Jurafsky and Martin 2021)
- Reference: Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering (Karpukhin et al. 2020)