IndicXNLI: Evaluating Multilingual Inference for Indian Languages

Divyanshu Aggarwal, Vivek Gupta, Anoop Kunchukuttan


Abstract
While Indic NLP has made rapid advances recently in terms of the availability of corpora and pre-trained models, benchmark datasets on standard NLU tasks are limited. To this end, we introduce INDICXNLI, an NLI dataset for 11 Indic languages. It has been created by high-quality machine translation of the original English XNLI dataset and our analysis attests to the quality of INDICXNLI. By finetuning different pre-trained LMs on this INDICXNLI, we analyze various cross-lingual transfer techniques with respect to the impact of the choice of language models, languages, multi-linguality, mix-language input, etc. These experiments provide us with useful insights into the behaviour of pre-trained models for a diverse set of languages.
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2022.emnlp-main.755
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Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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December
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2022
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Yoav Goldberg, Zornitsa Kozareva, Yue Zhang
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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10994–11006
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.755
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.755
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Divyanshu Aggarwal, Vivek Gupta, and Anoop Kunchukuttan. 2022. IndicXNLI: Evaluating Multilingual Inference for Indian Languages. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 10994–11006, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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