Belebele is a multiple-choice machine reading comprehension (MRC) dataset spanning 122 language variants. This dataset enables the evaluation of mono- and multi-lingual models in high-, medium-, and low-resource languages. Each question has four multiple-choice answers and is linked to a short passage from the FLORES-200 dataset. The human annotation procedure was carefully curated to create questions that discriminate between different levels of generalizable language comprehension and is reinforced by extensive quality checks. While all questions directly relate to the passage, the English dataset on its own proves difficult enough to challenge state-of-the-art language models. Being fully parallel, this dataset enables direct comparison of model performance across all languages. Belebele opens up new avenues for evaluating and analyzing the multilingual abilities of language models and NLP systems.
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BiPaR is a manually annotated bilingual parallel novel-style machine reading comprehension (MRC) dataset, developed to support monolingual, multilingual and cross-lingual reading comprehension on novels. The biggest difference between BiPaR and existing reading comprehension datasets is that each triple (Passage, Question, Answer) in BiPaR is written in parallel in two languages. BiPaR is diverse in prefixes of questions, answer types and relationships between questions and passages. Answering the questions requires reading comprehension skills of coreference resolution, multi-sentence reasoning, and understanding of implicit causality.
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