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language: |
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- ha |
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- so |
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- sw |
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- yo |
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mutilinguality: |
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- multilingual |
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task-categories: |
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- text-retrieval |
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license: apache-2.0 |
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viewer: true |
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# Dataset Summary |
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CIRAL is a collection for cross-lingual information retrieval research across four (4) African languages. The collection comprises English queries and query-passage relevance judgements manually annotated by native speakers. |
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This dataset stores passages which have been culled from news websites for CIRAL. |
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## Dataset Structure |
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This dataset is configured by language. An example of a passage data entry is |
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```json |
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{ |
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'docid': 'DOCID#0#0', |
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'title': 'This is the title of a sample passage', |
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'text': 'This is the content of a sample passage', |
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'url': 'https:/\/\this-is-a-sample-url.com' |
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} |
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``` |
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## Load Dataset |
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An example to load the dataset |
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```python |
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language = "hausa" |
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dataset = load_dataset("ciral/ciral-corpus", language) |
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``` |
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## Citation |
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