Making a MIRACL: Multilingual Information Retrieval Across a Continuum of Languages

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.09984v1
• Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 16:47:18 GMT
• Title: Making a MIRACL: Multilingual Information Retrieval Across a Continuum of Languages
• Authors: Xinyu Zhang, Nandan Thakur, Odunayo Ogundepo, Ehsan Kamalloo, David Alfonso-Hermelo, Xiaoguang Li, Qun Liu, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Jimmy Lin
• Abstract summary: MIRACL is a multilingual dataset we have built for the WSDM 2023 Cup challenge. It focuses on ad hoc retrieval across 18 different languages. Our goal is to spur research that will improve retrieval across a continuum of languages.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: MIRACL (Multilingual Information Retrieval Across a Continuum of Languages) is a multilingual dataset we have built for the WSDM 2023 Cup challenge that focuses on ad hoc retrieval across 18 different languages, which collectively encompass over three billion native speakers around the world. These languages have diverse typologies, originate from many different language families, and are associated with varying amounts of available resources -- including what researchers typically characterize as high-resource as well as low-resource languages. Our dataset is designed to support the creation and evaluation of models for monolingual retrieval, where the queries and the corpora are in the same language. In total, we have gathered over 700k high-quality relevance judgments for around 77k queries over Wikipedia in these 18 languages, where all assessments have been performed by native speakers hired by our team. Our goal is to spur research that will improve retrieval across a continuum of languages, thus enhancing information access capabilities for diverse populations around the world, particularly those that have been traditionally underserved. This overview paper describes the dataset and baselines that we share with the community. The MIRACL website is live at http://miracl.ai/.

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