Zero-shot Probing of Pretrained Language Models for Geography Knowledge

Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Vasudeva Varma, Girish Palshikar, Sachin Pawar


Abstract
Gauging the knowledge of Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) about facts in niche domains is an important step towards making them better in those domains. In this paper, we aim at evaluating multiple PLMs for their knowledge about world Geography. We contribute (i) a sufficiently sized dataset of masked Geography sentences to probe PLMs on masked token prediction and generation tasks, (ii) benchmark the performance of multiple PLMs on the dataset. We also provide a detailed analysis of the performance of the PLMs on different Geography facts.
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2023.eval4nlp-1.5
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Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Evaluation and Comparison of NLP Systems
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November
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2023
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Bali, Indonesia
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Daniel Deutsch, Rotem Dror, Steffen Eger, Yang Gao, Christoph Leiter, Juri Opitz, Andreas Rücklé
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Eval4NLP | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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49–61
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.eval4nlp-1.5
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.eval4nlp-1.5
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Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Vasudeva Varma, Girish Palshikar, and Sachin Pawar. 2023. Zero-shot Probing of Pretrained Language Models for Geography Knowledge. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Evaluation and Comparison of NLP Systems, pages 49–61, Bali, Indonesia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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