Token Efficiency of Cross-Lingual Retrieval Models on Code-Switched Data: MKQA Evaluation via nDCG@10

Transferring information retrieval (IR) models from a high-resource language (typically English) to other languages in a zero-shot fashion has become a widely adopted approach. In this work, we show that the effectiveness of zero-shot rankers diminishes when queries and documents are present in different languages. Motivated by this, we propose to train ranking models on artificially code-switched data instead, which we generate by utilizing bilingual lexicons. To this end, we experiment with lexicons induced from (1) cross-lingual word embeddings and (2) parallel Wikipedia page titles. We use

Research goal: How does the token efficiency of cross-lingual retrieval models trained on code-switched data compare to standard zero-shot models when evaluated on the MKQA dataset using the nDCG@10 metric?

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