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1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Right for the Wrong Reasons: Diagnosing Syntactic Heuristics in Natural Language Inference

   McCoy, Pavlick and Linzen · Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2019

   The paper introduces HANS, a controlled test set where three fallible syntactic heuristics fail, to check whether language inference models trained on MNLI rely on those heuristics.

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   1. UncheckedModels trained on the MNLI dataset, including BERT, perform very poorly on HANS, a test built to expose three syntactic shortcuts, which suggests they adopted them.“We find that models trained on MNLI, including BERT, a state-of-the-art model, perform very poorly on HANS, suggesting that they have indeed adopted these heuristics.”