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masakhane/afriqa-gold-passages

Name: afriqa-gold-passages
Creator: masakhane
License: cc-by-sa-4.0
Keywords: task_categories:question-answering, multilinguality:multilingual, language:bem, language:fon, language:ha, language:ig, language:kin, language:sw, language:wo, language:yo, language:zu, language:tw, license:cc-by-sa-4.0, size_categories:10K<n<100K, arxiv:2305.06897

AfriQA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages AfriQA is the first cross-lingual question-answering (QA) dataset with a focus on African languages. The dataset includes over 12,000 XOR QA examples across 10 African languages, making it an invaluable resource for developing more equitable QA technology.

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Author / organization	masakhane
License (as declared)	cc-by-sa-4.0
Downloads	129 (as reported by Hugging Face)
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Created	7 July 2023
Last updated at source	27 September 2024

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