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title = "Exploiting Cloze-Questions for Few-Shot Text Classification and Natural Language Inference",
author = {Schick, Timo and
Sch{\"u}tze, Hinrich},
editor = "Merlo, Paola and
Tiedemann, Jorg and
Tsarfaty, Reut",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume",
month = apr,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.20",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.20",
pages = "255--269",
abstract = "Some NLP tasks can be solved in a fully unsupervised fashion by providing a pretrained language model with {``}task descriptions{''} in natural language (e.g., Radford et al., 2019). While this approach underperforms its supervised counterpart, we show in this work that the two ideas can be combined: We introduce Pattern-Exploiting Training (PET), a semi-supervised training procedure that reformulates input examples as cloze-style phrases to help language models understand a given task. These phrases are then used to assign soft labels to a large set of unlabeled examples. Finally, standard supervised training is performed on the resulting training set. For several tasks and languages, PET outperforms supervised training and strong semi-supervised approaches in low-resource settings by a large margin.",
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%A Schick, Timo
%A Schütze, Hinrich
%Y Merlo, Paola
%Y Tiedemann, Jorg
%Y Tsarfaty, Reut
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%8 April
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%C Online
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[Exploiting Cloze-Questions for Few-Shot Text Classification and Natural Language Inference](https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.20) (Schick & Schütze, EACL 2021)
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