Paper ID: 2308.09768

NaijaRC: A Multi-choice Reading Comprehension Dataset for Nigerian Languages

Anuoluwapo Aremu, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Daud Abolade, Nkechinyere F. Aguobi, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, David Ifeoluwa Adelani

In this paper, we create NaijaRC: a new multi-choice Reading Comprehension dataset for three native Nigeria languages that is based on high-school reading comprehension examination. We provide baseline results by performing cross-lingual transfer using existing English RACE and Belebele training dataset based on a pre-trained encoder-only model. Additionally, we provide results by prompting large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4.

Submitted: Aug 18, 2023