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MALAMUTE: A Multilingual, Highly-granular, Template-free, Education-based Probing Dataset
Sagi Shaier, George Arthur Baker, Chiranthan Sridhar +2
Language models (LMs) have excelled in various broad domains. However, to ensure their safe and effective integration into real-world educational settings, they must demonstrate pr…
Lost in the Middle, and In-Between: Enhancing Language Models' Ability to Reason Over Long Contexts in Multi-Hop QA
George Arthur Baker, Ankush Raut, Sagi Shaier +2
Previous work finds that recent long-context language models fail to make equal use of information in the middle of their inputs, preferring pieces of information located at the ta…
Comparing Template-based and Template-free Language Model Probing
Sagi Shaier, Kevin Bennett, Lawrence E Hunter +1
The differences between cloze-task language model (LM) probing with 1) expert-made templates and 2) naturally-occurring text have often been overlooked. Here, we evaluate 16 differ…
It Is Not About What You Say, It Is About How You Say It: A Surprisingly Simple Approach for Improving Reading Comprehension
Sagi Shaier, Lawrence E Hunter, Katharina von der Wense
Natural language processing has seen rapid progress over the past decade. Due to the speed of developments, some practices get established without proper evaluation. Considering on…
Desiderata for the Context Use of Question Answering Systems
Sagi Shaier, Lawrence E Hunter, Katharina von der Wense
Prior work has uncovered a set of common problems in state-of-the-art context-based question answering (QA) systems: a lack of attention to the context when the latter conflicts wi…
Who Are All The Stochastic Parrots Imitating? They Should Tell Us!
Sagi Shaier, Lawrence E. Hunter, Katharina von der Wense
Both standalone language models (LMs) as well as LMs within downstream-task systems have been shown to generate statements which are factually untrue. This problem is especially se…