Jump to better conclusions: SCAN both left and right
Jasmijn Bastings, Marco Baroni, Jason Weston, Kyunghyun Cho, Douwe Kiela
Abstract
Lake and Baroni (2018) recently introduced the SCAN data set, which consists of simple commands paired with action sequences and is intended to test the strong generalization abilities of recurrent sequence-to-sequence models. Their initial experiments suggested that such models may fail because they lack the ability to extract systematic rules. Here, we take a closer look at SCAN and show that it does not always capture the kind of generalization that it was designed for. To mitigate this we propose a complementary dataset, which requires mapping actions back to the original commands, called NACS. We show that models that do well on SCAN do not necessarily do well on NACS, and that NACS exhibits properties more closely aligned with realistic use-cases for sequence-to-sequence models.- Anthology ID:
- W18-5407
- Original:
- W18-5407v1
- Version 2:
- W18-5407v2
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Brussels, Belgium
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 47–55
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W18-5407
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W18-5407
- Cite (ACL):
- Jasmijn Bastings, Marco Baroni, Jason Weston, Kyunghyun Cho, and Douwe Kiela. 2018. Jump to better conclusions: SCAN both left and right. In Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, pages 47–55, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Jump to better conclusions: SCAN both left and right (Bastings et al., EMNLP 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/W18-5407.pdf
- Code
- facebookresearch/NACS
- Data
- SCAN