CLUE: A Chinese Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark

Liang Xu, Hai Hu, Xuanwei Zhang, Lu Li, Chenjie Cao, Yudong Li, Yechen Xu, Kai Sun, Dian Yu, Cong Yu, Yin Tian, Qianqian Dong, Weitang Liu, Bo Shi, Yiming Cui, Junyi Li, Jun Zeng, Rongzhao Wang, Weijian Xie, Yanting Li, Yina Patterson, Zuoyu Tian, Yiwen Zhang, He Zhou, Shaoweihua Liu, Zhe Zhao, Qipeng Zhao, Cong Yue, Xinrui Zhang, Zhengliang Yang, Kyle Richardson, Zhenzhong Lan


Abstract
The advent of natural language understanding (NLU) benchmarks for English, such as GLUE and SuperGLUE allows new NLU models to be evaluated across a diverse set of tasks. These comprehensive benchmarks have facilitated a broad range of research and applications in natural language processing (NLP). The problem, however, is that most such benchmarks are limited to English, which has made it difficult to replicate many of the successes in English NLU for other languages. To help remedy this issue, we introduce the first large-scale Chinese Language Understanding Evaluation (CLUE) benchmark. CLUE is an open-ended, community-driven project that brings together 9 tasks spanning several well-established single-sentence/sentence-pair classification tasks, as well as machine reading comprehension, all on original Chinese text. To establish results on these tasks, we report scores using an exhaustive set of current state-of-the-art pre-trained Chinese models (9 in total). We also introduce a number of supplementary datasets and additional tools to help facilitate further progress on Chinese NLU. Our benchmark is released at https://www.cluebenchmarks.com
Anthology ID:
2020.coling-main.419
Volume:
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Month:
December
Year:
2020
Address:
Barcelona, Spain (Online)
Editors:
Donia Scott, Nuria Bel, Chengqing Zong
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COLING
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Publisher:
International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
4762–4772
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.419
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.419
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Cite (ACL):
Liang Xu, Hai Hu, Xuanwei Zhang, Lu Li, Chenjie Cao, Yudong Li, Yechen Xu, Kai Sun, Dian Yu, Cong Yu, Yin Tian, Qianqian Dong, Weitang Liu, Bo Shi, Yiming Cui, Junyi Li, Jun Zeng, Rongzhao Wang, Weijian Xie, et al.. 2020. CLUE: A Chinese Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 4762–4772, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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CLUE: A Chinese Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark (Xu et al., COLING 2020)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.419.pdf
Code
 CLUEbenchmark/CLUE +  additional community code
Data
CLUECMNLICMRCCMRC 2018ChIDGLUEMultiNLIOCNLIRACESentEvalSuperGLUEWSC