cs.CL 2010.11856

XOR QA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering

Proposes XOR QA, a cross-lingual open-retrieval question answering framework using a 40K-question dataset across 7 languages, achieving up to 18.7 F1 score.

Akari Asai, Jungo Kasai, Jonathan H. Clark et al.

2020-10-23 60
cs.CL 2010.01869

Linguistic Profiling of a Neural Language Model

Using 68 probing tasks, the study finds BERT loses linguistic information after fine-tuning, while more readable representations improve NLI accuracy.

Alessio Miaschi, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta et al.

2020-10-05 24
cs.CL 2010.00710

Nearest Neighbor Machine Translation

kNN-MT enhances translation via nearest neighbor search, improving German-English BLEU by 1.5.

Urvashi Khandelwal, Angela Fan, Dan Jurafsky et al.

2020-10-02 32