LAReQA: Language-Agnostic Answer Retrieval from a Multilingual Pool
LAReQA: Language-Agnostic Answer Retrieval from a Multilingual Pool
We present LAReQA, a challenging new benchmark for language-agnostic answer retrieval from a multilingual candidate pool. Unlike previous cross-lingual tasks, LAReQA tests for "strong" cross-lingual alignment, requiring semantically related cross-language pairs to be closer in representation space than unrelated same-language pairs. This level of alignment is important for the practical …