Wino-X: Multilingual Winograd Schemas for Commonsense Reasoning and Coreference Resolution

Denis Emelin, Rico Sennrich

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Winograd schemas are a well-established tool for evaluating coreference resolution (CoR) and commonsense reasoning (CSR) capabilities of computational models. So far, schemas remained largely confined to English, limiting their utility in multilingual settings. This work presents Wino-X, a parallel dataset of German, French, and Russian schemas, aligned with their English counterparts. We use this resource to investigate whether neural machine translation (NMT) models can perform CoR that requires commonsense knowledge and whether multilingual language models (MLLMs) are capable of CSR across multiple languages. Our findings show Wino-X to be exceptionally challenging for NMT systems that are prone to undesirable biases and unable to detect disambiguating information. We quantify biases using established statistical methods and define ways to address both of these issues. We furthermore present evidence of active cross-lingual knowledge transfer in MLLMs, whereby fine-tuning models on English schemas yields CSR improvements in other languages.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Place of PublicationOnline and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Pages8517-8532
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-955917-09-4
Publication statusPublished - 7 Nov 2021
Event2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Duration: 7 Nov 202111 Nov 2021
https://2021.emnlp.org/

Conference

Conference2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Abbreviated titleEMNLP 2021
Country/TerritoryDominican Republic
CityPunta Cana
Period7/11/2111/11/21
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