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Multilingual Question Answering

Multilingual question answering (QA) enables a model to read a passage and answer questions in multiple languages, often by fine-tuning a cross-lingual pretrained transformer such as mBERT or XLM-R on an annotated QA dataset in one language and transferring that capability zero-shot or few-shot to other languages. It is the standard approach for building multilingual reading-comprehension and open-domain QA systems.

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  1. Artetxe, M., Ruder, S., & Yogatama, D. (2020). On the cross-lingual transferability of monolingual representations. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp. 4623–4637). ACL. DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.421
  2. Clark, J. H., Choi, E., Collins, M., Garrette, D., Kwiatkowski, T., Nikolaev, V., & Palomaki, J. (2020). TyDi QA: A benchmark for information-seeking question answering in typologically diverse languages. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 8, 454–470. DOI: 10.1162/tacl_a_00317

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ScholarGateMultilingual question answering (Multilingual Question Answering (Cross-lingual MRC)). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/deep-learning/multilingual-question-answering