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Most Influential ACL 2020 Paper · 2026-03 edition

Adversarial NLI: A New Benchmark For Natural Language Understanding

Yixin Nie, Adina Williams, Emily Dinan, Mohit Bansal, Jason Weston, Douwe Kiela

Venue
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2020
Recognition
Most Influential ACL 2020 Paper (Rank No. 7)
Edition
2026-03
Impact factor
8
Certificate ID
d7613823f6c70641

Abstract

We introduce a new large-scale NLI benchmark dataset, collected via an iterative, adversarial human-and-model-in-the-loop procedure. We show that training models on this new dataset leads to state-of-the-art performance on a variety of popular NLI benchmarks, while posing a more difficult challenge with its new test set. Our analysis sheds light on the shortcomings of current state-of-the-art models, and shows that non-expert annotators are successful at finding their weaknesses. The data collection method can be applied in a never-ending learning scenario, becoming a moving target for NLU, rather than a static benchmark that will quickly saturate.

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