Oleg Zinkevich
2022
TAPE: Assessing Few-shot Russian Language Understanding
Ekaterina Taktasheva
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Tatiana Shavrina
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Alena Fenogenova
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Denis Shevelev
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Nadezhda Katricheva
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Maria Tikhonova
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Albina Akhmetgareeva
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Oleg Zinkevich
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Anastasiia Bashmakova
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Svetlana Iordanskaia
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Alena Spiridonova
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Valentina Kurenshchikova
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Ekaterina Artemova
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Vladislav Mikhailov
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
Recent advances in zero-shot and few-shot learning have shown promise for a scope of research and practical purposes. However, this fast-growing area lacks standardized evaluation suites for non-English languages, hindering progress outside the Anglo-centric paradigm. To address this line of research, we propose TAPE (Text Attack and Perturbation Evaluation), a novel benchmark that includes six more complex NLU tasks for Russian, covering multi-hop reasoning, ethical concepts, logic and commonsense knowledge. The TAPE’s design focuses on systematic zero-shot and few-shot NLU evaluation: (i) linguistic-oriented adversarial attacks and perturbations for analyzing robustness, and (ii) subpopulations for nuanced interpretation. The detailed analysis of testing the autoregressive baselines indicates that simple spelling-based perturbations affect the performance the most, while paraphrasing the input has a more negligible effect. At the same time, the results demonstrate a significant gap between the neural and human baselines for most tasks. We publicly release TAPE (https://tape-benchmark.com) to foster research on robust LMs that can generalize to new tasks when little to no supervision is available.
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