Adversarial NLI: A New Benchmark for Natural Language Understanding

Yixin Nie, Adina Williams, Emily Dinan, Mohit Bansal, Jason Weston, Douwe Kiela


Abstract
We introduce a new large-scale NLI benchmark dataset, collected via an iterative, adversarial human-and-model-in-the-loop procedure. We show that training models on this new dataset leads to state-of-the-art performance on a variety of popular NLI benchmarks, while posing a more difficult challenge with its new test set. Our analysis sheds light on the shortcomings of current state-of-the-art models, and shows that non-expert annotators are successful at finding their weaknesses. The data collection method can be applied in a never-ending learning scenario, becoming a moving target for NLU, rather than a static benchmark that will quickly saturate.
Anthology ID:
2020.acl-main.441
Volume:
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Editors:
Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
4885–4901
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.441
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.441
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Cite (ACL):
Yixin Nie, Adina Williams, Emily Dinan, Mohit Bansal, Jason Weston, and Douwe Kiela. 2020. Adversarial NLI: A New Benchmark for Natural Language Understanding. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 4885–4901, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Adversarial NLI: A New Benchmark for Natural Language Understanding (Nie et al., ACL 2020)
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PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-3/2020.acl-main.441.pdf
Video:
 http://slideslive.com/38928732
Code
 facebookresearch/anli +  additional community code
Data
ANLIFEVERGLUEHotpotQAImageNetMultiNLISNLISQuADSWAGVisual Question Answering