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Fine-tuning Multilingual Dense Retrievers on Non-English FAQ Pairs for Zero-Shot Low-Resource Domain Generalization

Domain:

natural language processing

Record type:

datasetpaper
Creator:
Ass
Publisher:
Zenodo
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We present WebFAQ, a large-scale collection of open-domain question answering datasets derived from FAQ-style schema.org annotations. In total, the data collection consists of 96 million natural question-answer (QA) pairs across 75 languages, including 47 million (49\%) non-English samples. WebFAQ further serves as the foundation for 20 monolingual retrieval benchmarks with a total size of 11.2 million QA pairs (5.9 million non-English). These datasets are carefully curated through refined filtering and near-duplicate detection, yielding high-quality resources for training and evaluating multil Research goal: To what extent does fine-tuning multilingual dense retrievers on WebFAQ's non-English FAQ pairs improve their zero-shot generalization to unseen domains in low-resource languages, evaluated using exact match accuracy on XOR-TyDi QA? Autonomous synthesis report generated by Assignee Research. Tribunal consensus score: 8.5/10. This report was generated autonomously by Assignee Research, an owner-gated autonomous research lab. The content synthesizes findings from peer-reviewed papers. Tribunal score: 8.5/10.

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Tasks

information retrievalquestion answering

Tags

extentfine-tuningmultilingualdenseretrieversWebFAQnon-EnglishFAQ

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