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Lead Researcher(s): Jhoanna Rica T. Lagumbay and Robert R. Roxas<\/strong> Abstract\/summary:<\/strong> Question answering (QA) system answers queries given a corpus of natural language documents. QA systems have seen significant advancements across various languages, such as Arabic and Amharic, using transformer-based models. There remains, however, a notable gap for the Cebuano language, a widely spoken language in the Philippines. One major barrier is the absence of a publicly available Cebuano QA dataset. This study addresses this gap by introducing a three-fold contribution: (1) a pseudonymization technique tailored to Cebuano texts to preserve privacy in news-based datasets, (2) the construction of Cebuano Question Answering Dataset (CebQuAD), the first Cebuano QA dataset, and (3) the development of Cebuano Question Answering (CebQA) system, an end-to-end QA system. To build CebQuAD, Cebuano news articles were collected and pseudonymized to protect personal identities. Question-answer pairs were generated using GPT-4o mini, validated by Cebuano speakers, and split into training, testing and validation sets. The CebQA system incorporates a retriever-reader architecture, employing ElasticSearch\/BM25 and FAISS\/DPR for indexing and retrieval and fine-tuning XLM-RoBERTa for answer extraction. Results show that BM25 achieved the highest retrieval accuracy, while the best reader attained an F1 score of 79.22. The end-to-end system has an F1 score at 49.50 at\u00a0<\/span>k<\/i>\u00a0= 1, aligning with the retriever\u2019s 63% accuracy, highlighting the viability of CebQA system as the first functional end-to-end QA system for the Cebuano language.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Keywords:<\/b><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_text=”Downloadable PDF” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” button_url=”https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-032-10827-2_28″ url_new_window=”on” custom_button=”on” button_text_color=”#8A1538″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lead Researcher(s): Jhoanna Rica T. Lagumbay and Robert R. RoxasStatus: Published Abstract\/summary: Question answering (QA) system answers queries given a corpus of natural language documents. QA systems have seen significant advancements across various languages, such as Arabic and Amharic, using transformer-based models. There remains, however, a notable gap for the Cebuano language, a widely spoken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[40],"project_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3121","project","type-project","status-publish","hentry","project_category-proceedings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3126,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3121\/revisions\/3126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Status:<\/strong> Published<\/p>\n\n