@inproceedings{f1a09f607a6646cfaf1455fb51d95d5a,
title = "Extractive Question Answering for Spanish and Arabic Political Text",
abstract = "This study advances the integration of domain-specific large language models (LLMs) for low-resource languages with applications for question-answering (QA). Leveraging on recent LLMs trained to extract events of political violence and conflict, we introduce ConfliBERT-Arabic and ConfliBERT-Spanish, fine-tuned for extractive QA. Contributions include tailored QA fine-tuning techniques for Arabic and Spanish, curation of five datasets, and a comprehensive performance analysis. These new models provide language and domain-specific enhancements over extant models trained on general corpora. Substantively, these tools allow implementation of high-quality QA about conflict and violence in multiple world regions in their native languages.",
keywords = "Arabic, Large language models, Natural language processing, Question answering, Spanish",
author = "Sultan Alsarra and Parker Whitehead and Naif Alatrush and Luay Abdeljaber and Latifur Khan and Javier Osorio and Brandt, {Patrick T.} and Vito D{\textquoteright}Orazio",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.; 17th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, SBP-BRiMS 2024 ; Conference date: 18-09-2024 Through 20-09-2024",
year = "2024",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-72241-7_14",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783031722400",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "144--153",
editor = "Robert Thomson and Aryn Pyke and Aravind Hariharan and Scott Renshaw and Patrick Park and Samer Al-khateeb and Annetta Burger",
booktitle = "Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling - 17th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2024, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
}