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The LAMBADA dataset
Paperno, Denis; Kruszewski, Germán; Lazaridou, Angeliki; Pham, Quan Ngoc; Bernardi, Raffaella; Pezzelle, Sandro; Baroni, Marco; Boleda, Gemma; Fernández, Raquel
We introduce LAMBADA, a dataset to evaluate the capabilities of computational models for text understanding by means of a word prediction task. LAMBADA is a collection of narrative passages sharing the characteristic that human subjects are able to guess their last word if they are exposed to the whole passage, but not if they only see the last sentence preceding the target word. To succeed on LAMBADA, computational models cannot simply rely on local context, but must be able to keep track of information in the broader discourse. We show that LAMBADA exemplifies a wide range of linguistic phenomena, and that none of several state-of-the-art language models reaches accuracy above 1% on this novel benchmark. We thus propose LAMBADA as a challenging test set, meant to encourage the development of new models capable of genuine understanding of broad context in natural language text.
The LAMBADA paper can be found here.
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- Publication date:
- August 7, 2016
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European Commission:
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COMPOSES - Compositional Operations in Semantic Space (283554)
- LOVe - Linking Objects to Vectors in distributional semantics: A framework to anchor corpus-based meaning representations to the external world (655577)
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COMPOSES - Compositional Operations in Semantic Space (283554)
- License (for files):
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International