

# Dataset Summary

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 for passages in the African languages.
This dataset repo contains only the queries and relevance judgements. The corpus collection can be found here [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/CIRAL/ciral-corpus)


# Dataset Structure
1. To download the files: The queries can be found under `ciral-{lang}/topics` and are in `.tsv` formats with each line in the form:

   ```
    qid\tquery
   ```
   while the judgements are in the folder `ciral-{lang}/qrels`, with each file in the standard TREC format:

   ```
    qid Q0 docid relevance
   ```
2. To access the dataset via `datasets`:
   
   ```
   ciral_dataset = load_dataset("ciral/ciral", "hausa") #or swahili, somali, yoruba

   for data in ciral_dataset['dev']:  # or 'testA' or 'testB'
      query_id = data['query_id']
      query = data['query']
      pos_qrels = data['positive_passages']
      neg_qrels = data['negative_passages']

      # To load test set A's pool judgments
      pools_pos_qrels = data['pools_positive_passages']
      pools_neg_qrels = data['pools_negative_passages']

      for qrel in pos_qrels:
         docid = qrel['docid']
         text = qrel['text']
   ```



   
## Citation

```
@misc{CiralHfCite,
  title = {{CIRAL: A Test Suite for {CLIR} in {A}frican Languages}},
  author = {Mofetoluwa Adeyemi and
    Akintunde Oladipo and
    Xinyu Zhang and
    David Alfonso-Hermelo and
    Mehdi Rezagholizadeh and
    Boxing Chen and
    Jimmy Lin},
  year = 2023,
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/CIRAL/ciral},
  urldate = {2023-12-19}
}
```
task_categories:text-retrieval language:ha language:so language:sw language:yo license:apache-2.0 region:us
{"language": ["ha", "so", "sw", "yo"], "license": "apache-2.0", "task_categories": ["text-retrieval"], "mutilinguality": ["multilingual"], "viewer": true}
TAGS
#task_categories-text-retrieval #language-Hausa #language-Somali #language-Swahili (macrolanguage) #language-Yoruba #license-apache-2.0 #region-us 



# Dataset Summary

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 for passages in the African languages.
This dataset repo contains only the queries and relevance judgements. The corpus collection can be found here here


# Dataset Structure
1. To download the files: The queries can be found under 'ciral-{lang}/topics' and are in '.tsv' formats with each line in the form:

   
   while the judgements are in the folder 'ciral-{lang}/qrels', with each file in the standard TREC format:

   
2. To access the dataset via 'datasets':
   
   



   

# Dataset Summary

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 for passages in the African languages.
This dataset repo contains only the queries and relevance judgements. The corpus collection can be found here here # Dataset Structure
1. To download the files: The queries can be found under 'ciral-{lang}/topics' and are in '.tsv' formats with each line in the form:

   
   while the judgements are in the folder 'ciral-{lang}/qrels', with each file in the standard TREC format:

   
2. To access the dataset via 'datasets':
TAGS
#task_categories-text-retrieval #language-Hausa #language-Somali #language-Swahili (macrolanguage) #language-Yoruba #license-apache-2.0 #region-us 
 # Dataset Summary

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 for passages in the African languages.
This dataset repo contains only the queries and relevance judgements. The corpus collection can be found here here # Dataset Structure
1. To download the files: The queries can be found under 'ciral-{lang}/topics' and are in '.tsv' formats with each line in the form:

   
   while the judgements are in the folder 'ciral-{lang}/qrels', with each file in the standard TREC format:

   
2. To access the dataset via 'datasets':
passage: TAGS
#task_categories-text-retrieval #language-Hausa #language-Somali #language-Swahili (macrolanguage) #language-Yoruba #license-apache-2.0 #region-us 
# Dataset Summary

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 for passages in the African languages.
This dataset repo contains only the queries and relevance judgements. The corpus collection can be found here here# Dataset Structure
1. To download the files: The queries can be found under 'ciral-{lang}/topics' and are in '.tsv' formats with each line in the form:

   
   while the judgements are in the folder 'ciral-{lang}/qrels', with each file in the standard TREC format:

   
2. To access the dataset via 'datasets':