Extending Translate-Train for ColBERT-X to African Language CLIR
Eugene Yang Dawn J. Lawrie Paul McNamee James Mayfield
This paper describes the submission runs from the HLTCOE team at the CIRAL
CLIR tasks for African languages at FIRE 2023. Our submissions use machine
translation models to translate the documents and the training passages, and
ColBERT-X as the retrieval model. Additionally, we present a set of unofficial
runs that use an alternative training procedure with a similar training
setting.