 IT5 Large for Question Answering ⁉️ 🇮🇹  This repository contains the checkpoint for the [IT5 Large](https://huggingface.co/gsarti/it5-large) model fine-tuned on extractive question answering on the [SQuAD-IT corpus](https://huggingface.co/datasets/squad_it) as part of the experiments of the paper [IT5: Large-scale Text-to-text Pretraining for Italian Language Understanding and Generation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03759) by [Gabriele Sarti](https://gsarti.com) and [Malvina Nissim](https://malvinanissim.github.io).   A comprehensive overview of other released materials is provided in the [gsarti/it5](https://github.com/gsarti/it5) repository. Refer to the paper for additional details concerning the reported scores and the evaluation approach.  