LiRo: Benchmark and leaderboard for Romanian language tasksDownload PDF

Published: 29 Jul 2021, Last Modified: 24 May 2023NeurIPS 2021 Datasets and Benchmarks Track (Round 1)Readers: Everyone
Keywords: benchmark, NLP, Romanian language, debiasing
TL;DR: We propose the first public benchmark and leaderboard for Romanian language tasks.
Abstract: Recent advances in NLP have been sustained by the availability of large amounts of data and standardized benchmarks, which are not available for many languages. As a small step towards addressing this we propose LiRo, a platform for benchmarking models on the Romanian language on nine standard tasks: text classification, named entity recognition, machine translation, sentiment analysis, POS tagging, dependency parsing, language modelling, question-answering, and semantic textual similarity. We also include a less standard task of embedding debiasing, to address the growing concerns related to gender bias in language models. The platform exposes per-task leaderboards populated with baseline results for each task. In addition, we create three new datasets: one from Romanian Wikipedia and two by translating the Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) benchmark and the Cross-lingual Question Answering Dataset (XQuAD) into Romanian. We believe LiRo will not only add to the growing body of benchmarks covering various languages, but can also enable multi-lingual research by augmenting parallel corpora, and hence is of interest for the wider NLP community. LiRo is available at https://lirobenchmark.github.io/.
URL: https://lirobenchmark.github.io/
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