Raji, Shahab
NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation
Dhole, Kaustubh D., Gangal, Varun, Gehrmann, Sebastian, Gupta, Aadesh, Li, Zhenhao, Mahamood, Saad, Mahendiran, Abinaya, Mille, Simon, Srivastava, Ashish, Tan, Samson, Wu, Tongshuang, Sohl-Dickstein, Jascha, Choi, Jinho D., Hovy, Eduard, Dusek, Ondrej, Ruder, Sebastian, Anand, Sajant, Aneja, Nagender, Banjade, Rabin, Barthe, Lisa, Behnke, Hanna, Berlot-Attwell, Ian, Boyle, Connor, Brun, Caroline, Cabezudo, Marco Antonio Sobrevilla, Cahyawijaya, Samuel, Chapuis, Emile, Che, Wanxiang, Choudhary, Mukund, Clauss, Christian, Colombo, Pierre, Cornell, Filip, Dagan, Gautier, Das, Mayukh, Dixit, Tanay, Dopierre, Thomas, Dray, Paul-Alexis, Dubey, Suchitra, Ekeinhor, Tatiana, Di Giovanni, Marco, Gupta, Rishabh, Gupta, Rishabh, Hamla, Louanes, Han, Sang, Harel-Canada, Fabrice, Honore, Antoine, Jindal, Ishan, Joniak, Przemyslaw K., Kleyko, Denis, Kovatchev, Venelin, Krishna, Kalpesh, Kumar, Ashutosh, Langer, Stefan, Lee, Seungjae Ryan, Levinson, Corey James, Liang, Hualou, Liang, Kaizhao, Liu, Zhexiong, Lukyanenko, Andrey, Marivate, Vukosi, de Melo, Gerard, Meoni, Simon, Meyer, Maxime, Mir, Afnan, Moosavi, Nafise Sadat, Muennighoff, Niklas, Mun, Timothy Sum Hon, Murray, Kenton, Namysl, Marcin, Obedkova, Maria, Oli, Priti, Pasricha, Nivranshu, Pfister, Jan, Plant, Richard, Prabhu, Vinay, Pais, Vasile, Qin, Libo, Raji, Shahab, Rajpoot, Pawan Kumar, Raunak, Vikas, Rinberg, Roy, Roberts, Nicolas, Rodriguez, Juan Diego, Roux, Claude, S., Vasconcellos P. H., Sai, Ananya B., Schmidt, Robin M., Scialom, Thomas, Sefara, Tshephisho, Shamsi, Saqib N., Shen, Xudong, Shi, Haoyue, Shi, Yiwen, Shvets, Anna, Siegel, Nick, Sileo, Damien, Simon, Jamie, Singh, Chandan, Sitelew, Roman, Soni, Priyank, Sorensen, Taylor, Soto, William, Srivastava, Aman, Srivatsa, KV Aditya, Sun, Tony, T, Mukund Varma, Tabassum, A, Tan, Fiona Anting, Teehan, Ryan, Tiwari, Mo, Tolkiehn, Marie, Wang, Athena, Wang, Zijian, Wang, Gloria, Wang, Zijie J., Wei, Fuxuan, Wilie, Bryan, Winata, Genta Indra, Wu, Xinyi, Wydmański, Witold, Xie, Tianbao, Yaseen, Usama, Yee, M., Zhang, Jing, Zhang, Yue
Data augmentation is an important component in the robustness evaluation of models in natural language processing (NLP) and in enhancing the diversity of the data they are trained on. In this paper, we present NL-Augmenter, a new participatory Python-based natural language augmentation framework which supports the creation of both transformations (modifications to the data) and filters (data splits according to specific features). We describe the framework and an initial set of 117 transformations and 23 filters for a variety of natural language tasks. We demonstrate the efficacy of NL-Augmenter by using several of its transformations to analyze the robustness of popular natural language models. The infrastructure, datacards and robustness analysis results are available publicly on the NL-Augmenter repository (\url{https://github.com/GEM-benchmark/NL-Augmenter}).
ParsiNLU: A Suite of Language Understanding Challenges for Persian
Khashabi, Daniel, Cohan, Arman, Shakeri, Siamak, Hosseini, Pedram, Pezeshkpour, Pouya, Alikhani, Malihe, Aminnaseri, Moin, Bitaab, Marzieh, Brahman, Faeze, Ghazarian, Sarik, Gheini, Mozhdeh, Kabiri, Arman, Mahabadi, Rabeeh Karimi, Memarrast, Omid, Mosallanezhad, Ahmadreza, Noury, Erfan, Raji, Shahab, Rasooli, Mohammad Sadegh, Sadeghi, Sepideh, Azer, Erfan Sadeqi, Samghabadi, Niloofar Safi, Shafaei, Mahsa, Sheybani, Saber, Tazarv, Ali, Yaghoobzadeh, Yadollah
Despite the progress made in recent years in addressing natural language understanding (NLU) challenges, the majority of this progress remains to be concentrated on resource-rich languages like English. This work focuses on Persian language, one of the widely spoken languages in the world, and yet there are few NLU datasets available for this rich language. The availability of high-quality evaluation datasets is a necessity for reliable assessment of the progress on different NLU tasks and domains. We introduce ParsiNLU, the first benchmark in Persian language that includes a range of high-level tasks -- Reading Comprehension, Textual Entailment, etc. These datasets are collected in a multitude of ways, often involving manual annotations by native speakers. This results in over 14.5$k$ new instances across 6 distinct NLU tasks. Besides, we present the first results on state-of-the-art monolingual and multi-lingual pre-trained language-models on this benchmark and compare them with human performance, which provides valuable insights into our ability to tackle natural language understanding challenges in Persian. We hope ParsiNLU fosters further research and advances in Persian language understanding.