CUNI and LMU Submission to the MRL 2024 Shared Task on Multi-lingual Multi-task Information Retrieval

Katharina Hämmerl, Andrei-Alexandru Manea, Gianluca Vico, Jindřich Helcl, Jindřich Libovický


Abstract
We present the joint CUNI and LMU submission to the MRL 2024 Shared Task on Multi-lingual Multi-task Information Retrieval.The shared task objective was to explore how we can deploy modern methods in NLP in multi-lingual low-resource settings, tested on two sub-tasks: Named-entity recognition and question answering.Our solutions to the subtasks are based on data acquisition and model adaptation.We compare the performance of our submitted systems with the translate-test approachwhich proved to be the most useful in the previous edition of the shared task.Our results show that using more data as well as fine-tuning recent multilingual pre-trained models leads to considerable improvements over the translate-test baseline.Our code is available at https://github.com/ufal/mrl2024-multilingual-ir-shared-task.
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2024.mrl-1.29
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2024)
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Jonne Sälevä, Abraham Owodunni
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MRL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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357–364
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Katharina Hämmerl, Andrei-Alexandru Manea, Gianluca Vico, Jindřich Helcl, and Jindřich Libovický. 2024. CUNI and LMU Submission to the MRL 2024 Shared Task on Multi-lingual Multi-task Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2024), pages 357–364, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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CUNI and LMU Submission to the MRL 2024 Shared Task on Multi-lingual Multi-task Information Retrieval (Hämmerl et al., MRL 2024)
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