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Natural Language Inference (NLI) is the task of inferring whether the hypothesis can be justified by the given premise. Basically, we classify the hypothesis into three labels(entailment, neutrality and contradiction) given the premise. NLI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Zijiang Yang

Natural Language Inference (NLI) datasets contain annotation artefacts resulting in spurious correlations between the natural language utterances and their respective entailment classes. These artefacts are exploited by neural networks even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Joe Stacey , Pasquale Minervini , Haim Dubossarsky , Sebastian Riedel , Tim Rocktäschel

Imbalanced datasets present a significant challenge for machine learning models, often leading to biased predictions. To address this issue, data augmentation techniques are widely used in natural language processing (NLP) to generate new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Gabriel O. Assunção , Rafael Izbicki , Marcos O. Prates

Modeling natural language inference is a very challenging task. With the availability of large annotated data, it has recently become feasible to train complex models such as neural-network-based inference models, which have shown to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Qian Chen , Xiaodan Zhu , Zhen-Hua Ling , Diana Inkpen , Si Wei

NLP has achieved great progress in the past decade through the use of neural models and large labeled datasets. The dependence on abundant data prevents NLP models from being applied to low-resource settings or novel tasks where significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Jiaao Chen , Derek Tam , Colin Raffel , Mohit Bansal , Diyi Yang

While Natural Language Inference (NLI) models have achieved high performances on benchmark datasets, there are still concerns whether they truly capture the intended task, or largely exploit dataset artifacts. Through detailed analysis of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Karthik Sivakoti

Natural Language Inference (NLI) datasets often contain hypothesis-only biases---artifacts that allow models to achieve non-trivial performance without learning whether a premise entails a hypothesis. We propose two probabilistic methods to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Yonatan Belinkov , Adam Poliak , Stuart M. Shieber , Benjamin Van Durme , Alexander M. Rush

In recent years, language models (LMs) have made remarkable progress in advancing the field of natural language processing (NLP). However, the impact of data augmentation (DA) techniques on the fine-tuning (FT) performance of these LMs has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Zhengxiang Shi , Aldo Lipani

Producing the required amounts of training data for machine learning and NLP tasks often involves human annotators doing very repetitive and monotonous work. In this paper, we present and evaluate our novel annotation framework DALPHI,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Robert Greinacher , Franziska Horn

Data augmentation is an essential technique in natural language processing (NLP) for enriching training datasets by generating diverse samples. This process is crucial for improving the robustness and generalization capabilities of NLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zaitian Wang , Jinghan Zhang , Xinhao Zhang , Kunpeng Liu , Pengfei Wang , Yuanchun Zhou

Existing NLP datasets contain various biases, and models tend to quickly learn those biases, which in turn limits their robustness. Existing approaches to improve robustness against dataset biases mostly focus on changing the training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Nafise Sadat Moosavi , Marcel de Boer , Prasetya Ajie Utama , Iryna Gurevych

Pretrained neural models such as BERT, when fine-tuned to perform natural language inference (NLI), often show high accuracy on standard datasets, but display a surprising lack of sensitivity to word order on controlled challenge sets. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Junghyun Min , R. Thomas McCoy , Dipanjan Das , Emily Pitler , Tal Linzen

Human data annotation, especially when involving experts, is often treated as an objective reference. However, many annotation tasks are inherently subjective, and annotators' judgments may evolve over time. This study investigates changes…

Natural Language Inference (NLI) models are known to learn from biases and artefacts within their training data, impacting how well they generalise to other unseen datasets. Existing de-biasing approaches focus on preventing the models from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Joe Stacey , Yonatan Belinkov , Marek Rei

This work describes a self-supervised data augmentation approach used to improve learning models' performances when only a moderate amount of labeled data is available. Multiple copies of the original model are initially trained on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Gabriele Sarti

While recent research on natural language inference has considerably benefited from large annotated datasets, the amount of inference-related knowledge (including commonsense) provided in the annotated data is still rather limited. There…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Xiaoyu Yang , Xiaodan Zhu , Zhan Shi , Tianda Li

Mixup is the latest data augmentation technique that linearly interpolates input examples and the corresponding labels. It has shown strong effectiveness in image classification by interpolating images at the pixel level. Inspired by this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Lichao Sun , Congying Xia , Wenpeng Yin , Tingting Liang , Philip S. Yu , Lifang He

Annotation bias in NLP datasets remains a major challenge for developing multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly in culturally diverse settings. Bias from task framing, annotator subjectivity, and cultural mismatches can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xia Cui , Ziyi Huang , Naeemeh Adel

Many NLP models gain performance by having access to a knowledge base. A lot of research has been devoted to devising and improving the way the knowledge base is accessed and incorporated into the model, resulting in a number of mechanisms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Vilém Zouhar , Marius Mosbach , Debanjali Biswas , Dietrich Klakow

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Yixin Nie , Adina Williams , Emily Dinan , Mohit Bansal , Jason Weston , Douwe Kiela