Vyākarana

       

While there has been significant progress towards developing NLU resources for Indic languages, syntactic evaluation has been relatively less explored. Unlike English, Indic languages have rich morphosyntax, grammatical genders, free linear word-order, and highly inflectional morphology. Here, we introduce Vyākarana: a benchmark of Colorless Green sentences in Indic languages for syntactic evaluation of multilingual language models.

The benchmark comprises four syntax-related tasks:

1. PoS Tagging (POS)
2. Grammatical Case Marking (GCM)
3. Syntax Tree-depth Prediction (STDP)
4. Subject-Verb Agreement (SVA).

Probing Leaderboard

Hindi

Treebank	Probing Task	Last Layer					Best Layer
		mBERT	XLM-R	DistilmBERT	IndicBERT	MuRIL	mBERT	XLM-R	DistilmBERT	IndicBERT	MuRIL
CG-HDTB	POS	0.8894	0.9143	0.8448	0.7418	0.6807	0.8932 (11)	0.9232 (8)	0.8543 (5)	0.7642 (6)	0.7030 (2)
	STDP	0.3455	0.2138	0.3254	0.3566	0.2318	0.3730 (6)	0.3232 (3)	0.3881 (5)	0.3756 (4)	0.3570 (10)
	GCM	0.6886	0.6967	0.6733	0.6216	0.5463	0.7050 (7)	0.7234 (8)	0.6968 (4)	0.6479 (2)	0.5878 (3)
	SVA	0.6003	0.5935	0.6040	0.3990	0.5568	0.6140 (8)	0.5935 (12)	0.6040 (6)	0.4451 (2)	0.5568 (12)
	Average	0.6310	0.6046	0.6119	0.5298	0.5039	0.6463	0.6408	0.6358	0.5582	0.5511
csCG-HDTB	POS	0.7543	0.7881	0.7422	0.7303	0.6752	0.7744 (7)	0.8079 (10)	0.7596 (5)	0.7608 (2)	0.7011 (1)
	STDP	0.3104	0.3429	0.3531	0.3805	0.2457	0.3879 (7)	0.3584 (3)	0.3843 (5)	0.3909 (3)	0.3676 (7)
	GCM	0.6415	0.6456	0.6533	0.6306	0.5653	0.6604 (8)	0.6683 (8)	0.6549 (5)	0.6535 (8)	0.5859 (3)
	SVA	0.5334	0.5629	0.5255	0.5389	0.5262	0.5650 (1)	0.5629 (12)	0.5752 (3)	0.5389 (12)	0.5647 (11)
	Average	0.5599	0.5849	0.5685	0.5701	0.5031	0.5969	0.5994	0.5935	0.5860	0.5548

Tamil

Treebank	Probing Task	Last Layer					Best Layer
		mBERT	XLM-R	DistilmBERT	IndicBERT	MuRIL	mBERT	XLM-R	DistilmBERT	IndicBERT	MuRIL
CG-TTB	POS	0.7444	0.7336	0.6431	0.5874	0.4539	0.7719 (9)	0.7946 (7)	0.6809 (4)	0.6327 (6)	0.4741 (5)
	STDP	0.0947	0.0716	0.2315	0.0716	0.0898	0.2209 (10)	0.0898 (6)	0.2819 (3)	0.0716 (1)	0.2051 (11)
	GCM	0.7319	0.6800	0.6336	0.5864	0.5878	0.7966 (7)	0.8187 (6)	0.6765 (4)	0.5864 (12)	0.6040 (1)
	Average	0.5237	0.4951	0.5027	0.4151	0.3772	0.5965	0.5677	0.5464	0.4302	0.4277
csCG-TTB	POS	0.5740	0.5416	0.5531	0.5024	0.4526	0.6012 (6)	0.5947 (6)	0.5759 (5)	0.5516 (8)	0.4817 (4)
	STDP	0.1029	0.1184	0.1476	0.0716	0.0716	0.2431 (11)	0.1085 (1)	0.2556 (4)	0.0716 (12)	0.1467 (7)
	GCM	0.5931	0.5832	0.5627	0.5605	0.5717	0.6300 (11)	0.6065 (8)	0.5811 (2)	0.5852 (4)	0.5875 (7)
	Average	0.4233	0.4144	0.4211	0.3782	0.3653	0.4914	0.4366	0.4709	0.4028	0.4053

Submission Instructions

Use the given task-specific notebooks and treebanks to get the probing results for any available encoder-only language model from Hugging Face. Open-up a new Pull request to add your model to the leaderboard with links to the notebooks to replicate the results.

Contributing

We are looking for linguists and native-language speakers to help us expand the benchmark to other Indic langauges available on Universal Dependencies. Please open-up an issue with the label add language here for the same.

Citation

If you use this dataset in your work, make sure to cite our paper:

@inproceedings{patil-etal-2021-vyakarana,
    title = "{V}y{\=a}karana: {A} Colorless Green Benchmark for Syntactic Evaluation in Indic Languages",
    author = "Patil, Rajaswa  and
      Dhillon, Jasleen  and
      Mahurkar, Siddhant  and
      Kulkarni, Saumitra  and
      Malhotra, Manav  and
      Baths, Veeky",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning",
    month = nov,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Punta Cana, Dominican Republic",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.mrl-1.14",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.mrl-1.14",
    pages = "153--165",
}

Rajaswa Patil, Jasleen Dhillon, Siddhant Mahurkar, Saumitra Kulkarni, Manav Malhotra, and Veeky Baths. 2021. Vyākarana: A Colorless Green Benchmark for Syntactic Evaluation in Indic Languages. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning, pages 153–165, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.