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A few-shot learning approach for a multilingual agro-information question answering system
Mini Dissertation (MIT (Big Data Science))--University of Pretoria, 2023.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/98153 A few-shot learning approach for a multilingual agro-information question answering system Marivate, Vukosi thefiskanibanda@gmail.com Nabende, Joyce Banda, Fiskani Ella UCTD Natural language processing (NLP) Low resource languages Extractive question answering Cross-lingual Mini Dissertation (MIT (Big Data Science))--University of Pretoria, 2023. Agriculture plays a crucial role in numerous households across Sub-Saharan Africa. Developing a question answering system that utilizes agricultural expertise and agro-information can effectively bridge the support gap for farmers in the local community. Most advances in question answering research involve large language models trained on extensive data. Nevertheless, the conventional approach of fine-tuning has demonstrated a significant decline in performance when models are fine-tuned on a small amount of data. This decline is primarily attributed to the disparities between the objectives of pretraining and fine-tuning. One proposed alternative is to utilize prompt-based fine-tuning, which permits the model to be fine-tuned with only a few examples. Extensive research has been done on the application of these methods to tasks such as text classification and not question answering. This research aims to study the feasibility of recent fewshot learning approaches, such as FewshotQA and Null prompting, for domain-specific agricultural data in 4 South African languages. We evaluated the overall performance of these approaches and investigated the effects of adapting these approaches for cross-lingual extractive question answering of domain-specific data. The results obtained in this study have shown valuable insight into the applicability of these methods to domain-specific data. These results have shown that these methods are capable of adequately capturing the textual information of domain-specific data from the initial subset of data points. Thus, there is potential for using these methods as a practical solution for limited data. Computer Science MIT (Big Data Science) Unrestricted Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology 2024-09-12T09:57:45Z 2024-09-12T09:57:45Z 2024-04 2023-12 Mini Dissertation * A2024 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/98153 en © 2021 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Natural language processing (NLP) Low resource languages Extractive question answering Cross-lingual A few-shot learning approach for a multilingual agro-information question answering system |
| title | A few-shot learning approach for a multilingual agro-information question answering system |
| title_full | A few-shot learning approach for a multilingual agro-information question answering system |
| title_fullStr | A few-shot learning approach for a multilingual agro-information question answering system |
| title_full_unstemmed | A few-shot learning approach for a multilingual agro-information question answering system |
| title_short | A few-shot learning approach for a multilingual agro-information question answering system |
| title_sort | few shot learning approach for a multilingual agro information question answering system |
| topic | UCTD Natural language processing (NLP) Low resource languages Extractive question answering Cross-lingual |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/98153 |