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title = "{G}lobal{B}ench: A Benchmark for Global Progress in Natural Language Processing",
author = "Song, Yueqi and
Khanuja, Simran and
Liu, Pengfei and
Faisal, Fahim and
Ostapenko, Alissa and
Winata, Genta and
Aji, Alham Fikri and
Cahyawijaya, Samuel and
Tsvetkov, Yulia and
Anastasopoulos, Antonios and
Neubig, Graham",
editor = "Bouamor, Houda and
Pino, Juan and
Bali, Kalika",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = dec,
year = "2023",
address = "Singapore",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.875",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.875",
pages = "14157--14171",
abstract = "Despite the major advances in NLP, significant disparities in NLP system performance across languages still exist. Arguably, these are due to uneven resource allocation and sub-optimal incentives to work on less resourced languages. To track and further incentivize the global development of equitable language technology, we introduce GlobalBench. Prior multilingual benchmarks are static and have focused on a limited number of tasks and languages. In contrast, GlobalBench is an ever-expanding collection that aims to dynamically track progress on all NLP datasets in all languages. Rather than solely measuring accuracy, GlobalBench also tracks the estimated per-speaker utility and equity of technology across all languages, providing a multi-faceted view of how language technology is serving people of the world. Furthermore, GlobalBench is designed to identify the most under-served languages, and rewards research efforts directed towards those languages. At present, the most under-served languages are the ones with a relatively high population, but nonetheless overlooked by composite multilingual benchmarks (like Punjabi, Portuguese, and Wu Chinese). Currently, GlobalBench covers 966 datasets in 190 languages, and has 1,128 system submissions spanning 62 languages.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T GlobalBench: A Benchmark for Global Progress in Natural Language Processing
%A Song, Yueqi
%A Khanuja, Simran
%A Liu, Pengfei
%A Faisal, Fahim
%A Ostapenko, Alissa
%A Winata, Genta
%A Aji, Alham Fikri
%A Cahyawijaya, Samuel
%A Tsvetkov, Yulia
%A Anastasopoulos, Antonios
%A Neubig, Graham
%Y Bouamor, Houda
%Y Pino, Juan
%Y Bali, Kalika
%S Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
%D 2023
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Singapore
%F song-etal-2023-globalbench
%X Despite the major advances in NLP, significant disparities in NLP system performance across languages still exist. Arguably, these are due to uneven resource allocation and sub-optimal incentives to work on less resourced languages. To track and further incentivize the global development of equitable language technology, we introduce GlobalBench. Prior multilingual benchmarks are static and have focused on a limited number of tasks and languages. In contrast, GlobalBench is an ever-expanding collection that aims to dynamically track progress on all NLP datasets in all languages. Rather than solely measuring accuracy, GlobalBench also tracks the estimated per-speaker utility and equity of technology across all languages, providing a multi-faceted view of how language technology is serving people of the world. Furthermore, GlobalBench is designed to identify the most under-served languages, and rewards research efforts directed towards those languages. At present, the most under-served languages are the ones with a relatively high population, but nonetheless overlooked by composite multilingual benchmarks (like Punjabi, Portuguese, and Wu Chinese). Currently, GlobalBench covers 966 datasets in 190 languages, and has 1,128 system submissions spanning 62 languages.
%R 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.875
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.875
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.875
%P 14157-14171
Markdown (Informal)
[GlobalBench: A Benchmark for Global Progress in Natural Language Processing](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.875) (Song et al., EMNLP 2023)
ACL
- Yueqi Song, Simran Khanuja, Pengfei Liu, Fahim Faisal, Alissa Ostapenko, Genta Winata, Alham Fikri Aji, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Yulia Tsvetkov, Antonios Anastasopoulos, and Graham Neubig. 2023. GlobalBench: A Benchmark for Global Progress in Natural Language Processing. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 14157–14171, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.