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+license: apache-2.0
+language:
+- ca
+- nl
+- fr
+- af
+- ga
+- gd
+- ms
+- oc
+---
+# Dataset Summary
+This is a variation of **mMARCO** by Bonifactio et al. used for the "Improving Low-Resource Retrieval Effectiveness using Zero-Shot Linguistic Similarity Transfer" paper
+
+**mMARCO** is a multilingual version of the [MS MARCO passage ranking dataset](https://microsoft.github.io/msmarco/).
+For more information, checkout our papers:
+  * [**mMARCO: A Multilingual Version of the MS MARCO Passage Ranking Dataset**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13897)
+  * [**A cost-benefit analysis of cross-lingual transfer methods**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06813)
+
+# Dataset Structure 
+
+`queries/` contains both the translated dev queries used for evaluation under `/dev_small` and the translated train/judged queries used for training under `/train/`.
+
+The dev queries are in the following languages: Afrikaans, Catalan, Scottish Gaelic, Malay, Occitan, Sicilian, Cantonese.
+the train queries are in the following languages: Afrikaans, Catalan.
+
+`train_with_negs` contains the triples (query, positive doc, negative doc) used for training the models our ECIR 2025 IR4GOOD paper.
+
+# Licensing Information
+
+This dataset is released under [Apache license 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/).
+
+
+# Citation Information
+
+If you use this dataset, please cite:
+
+```
+@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2108-13897,
+  author       = {Luiz Bonifacio and
+                  Israel Campiotti and
+                  Roberto de Alencar Lotufo and
+                  Rodrigo Frassetto Nogueira},
+  title        = {mMARCO: {A} Multilingual Version of {MS} {MARCO} Passage Ranking Dataset},
+  journal      = {CoRR},
+  volume       = {abs/2108.13897},
+  year         = {2021},
+  url          = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13897},
+  eprinttype    = {arXiv},
+  eprint       = {2108.13897},
+  timestamp    = {Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:35:34 +0100},
+  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/abs-2108-13897.bib},
+  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
+}
+```