ReadMe++: Benchmarking Multilingual Language Models for Multi-Domain Readability Assessment

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Main Authors: Naous, Tarek, Ryan, Michael J., Lavrouk, Anton, Chandra, Mohit, Xu, Wei
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Published: 2023
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author Naous, Tarek
Ryan, Michael J.
Lavrouk, Anton
Chandra, Mohit
Xu, Wei
author_facet Naous, Tarek
Ryan, Michael J.
Lavrouk, Anton
Chandra, Mohit
Xu, Wei
contents We present a comprehensive evaluation of large language models for multilingual readability assessment. Existing evaluation resources lack domain and language diversity, limiting the ability for cross-domain and cross-lingual analyses. This paper introduces ReadMe++, a multilingual multi-domain dataset with human annotations of 9757 sentences in Arabic, English, French, Hindi, and Russian, collected from 112 different data sources. This benchmark will encourage research on developing robust multilingual readability assessment methods. Using ReadMe++, we benchmark multilingual and monolingual language models in the supervised, unsupervised, and few-shot prompting settings. The domain and language diversity in ReadMe++ enable us to test more effective few-shot prompting, and identify shortcomings in state-of-the-art unsupervised methods. Our experiments also reveal exciting results of superior domain generalization and enhanced cross-lingual transfer capabilities by models trained on ReadMe++. We will make our data publicly available and release a python package tool for multilingual sentence readability prediction using our trained models at: https://github.com/tareknaous/readme
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spellingShingle ReadMe++: Benchmarking Multilingual Language Models for Multi-Domain Readability Assessment
Naous, Tarek
Ryan, Michael J.
Lavrouk, Anton
Chandra, Mohit
Xu, Wei
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
We present a comprehensive evaluation of large language models for multilingual readability assessment. Existing evaluation resources lack domain and language diversity, limiting the ability for cross-domain and cross-lingual analyses. This paper introduces ReadMe++, a multilingual multi-domain dataset with human annotations of 9757 sentences in Arabic, English, French, Hindi, and Russian, collected from 112 different data sources. This benchmark will encourage research on developing robust multilingual readability assessment methods. Using ReadMe++, we benchmark multilingual and monolingual language models in the supervised, unsupervised, and few-shot prompting settings. The domain and language diversity in ReadMe++ enable us to test more effective few-shot prompting, and identify shortcomings in state-of-the-art unsupervised methods. Our experiments also reveal exciting results of superior domain generalization and enhanced cross-lingual transfer capabilities by models trained on ReadMe++. We will make our data publicly available and release a python package tool for multilingual sentence readability prediction using our trained models at: https://github.com/tareknaous/readme
title ReadMe++: Benchmarking Multilingual Language Models for Multi-Domain Readability Assessment
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14463