In plain words: They checked whether sentence-pair reasoning datasets can be cheated by reading only the second sentence and ignoring the first. On a popular dataset that shortcut alone got 64% right, showing heavy bias, and a simple fix is proposed to reduce it.
Abstract
The ability to understand logical relationships between sentences is an important task in language understanding. To aid in progress for this task, researchers have collected datasets for machine learning and evaluation of current systems. However, like in the crowdsourced Visual Question Answering (VQA) task, some biases in the data inevitably occur. In our experiments, we find that performing classification on just the hypotheses on the SNLI dataset yields an accuracy of 64%. We analyze the bias extent in the SNLI and the MultiNLI dataset, discuss its implication, and propose a simple method to reduce the biases in the datasets.
Shawn Tan, Yikang Shen, Chin-wei Huang, Aaron Courville
arXiv:1906.09635 · cs.CL, cs.LG · submitted Jun 23, 2019
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