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Large-scale Cloze Test Dataset Created by Teachers

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Cloze tests are widely adopted in language exams to evaluate students' language proficiency. In this paper, we propose the first large-scale human-created cloze test dataset CLOTH, containing questions used in middle-school and high-school language exams. With missing blanks carefully created by teachers and candidate choices purposely designed to be nuanced, CLOTH requires a deeper language understanding and a wider attention span than previously automatically-generated cloze datasets. We test the performance of dedicatedly designed baseline models including a language model trained on the One Billion Word Corpus and show humans outperform them by a significant margin. We investigate the source of the performance gap, trace model deficiencies to some distinct properties of CLOTH, and identify the limited ability of comprehending the long-term context to be the key bottleneck.

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2023 1 2019 1

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The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs

cs.CL · 2023-05-25 · conditional · novelty 6.0

Finetuning open LMs on ChatGPT outputs creates models that mimic style and fool human raters but fail to close the performance gap to proprietary systems on tasks not well-represented in the imitation data.

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  • The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs cs.CL · 2023-05-25 · conditional · none · ref 264 · internal anchor

    Finetuning open LMs on ChatGPT outputs creates models that mimic style and fool human raters but fail to close the performance gap to proprietary systems on tasks not well-represented in the imitation data.

  • Machine Reading Comprehension: a Literature Review cs.CL · 2019-06-30 · unverdicted · none · ref 69 · internal anchor

    A 2019 survey of machine reading comprehension corpora and methods.