# Extending Translate-Train for ColBERT-X to African Language CLIR

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08134 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.08134/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 9 of its 14 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 11 Apr 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 9 of 9)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning at Scale](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.02116/) (2019)
- [ColBERT: Efficient and Effective Passage Search via Contextualized Late Interaction over BERT](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.12832/) (2020)
- [ColBERTv2: Effective and Efficient Retrieval via Lightweight Late Interaction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.01488/) (2021)
- [PLAID: An Efficient Engine for Late Interaction Retrieval](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.09707/) (2022)
- [Transfer Learning Approaches for Building Cross-Language Dense Retrieval Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.08471/) (2022)
- [C3: Continued Pretraining with Contrastive Weak Supervision for Cross Language Ad-Hoc Retrieval](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.11989/) (2022)
- [Overview of the TREC 2022 NeuCLIR Track](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.12367/) (2023)
- [Synthetic Cross-language Information Retrieval Training Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.00331/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [DenseOn with the LateOn: Fully Open Dense and Late-Interaction Models for Multilingual, Long-Context, and Code Search](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.27178/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper describes the submission runs from the HLTCOE team at the CIRAL CLIR tasks for African languages at FIRE 2023. Our submissions use machine translation models to translate the documents and the training passages, and ColBERT-X as the retrieval model. Additionally, we present a set of unofficial runs that use an alternative training procedure with a similar training setting.