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Massive FAQ Dataset in 8 Languages Boosts Cross-Language Search Performance

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Overview

  • WebFAQ is a collection of question-answer pairs from web FAQs across 8 languages
  • Contains 2.7 million natural FAQ pairs sourced from real websites
  • Includes a multilingual parallel test set with 1,024 queries in all 8 languages
  • Outperforms existing multilingual embeddings on cross-lingual retrieval
  • Proves valuable for improving multilingual text embedding models

Plain English Explanation

WebFAQ is a massive collection of 2.7 million question-answer pairs gathered from real websites across eight languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and Polish. Unlike artificial datasets created by translating English content, this collection c...

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