The KLUE is introduced to make advances in Korean NLP. Korean pre-trained language models(PLMs) have appeared to solve Korean NLP problems since PLMs have brought significant performance gains in NLP problems in other languages. Despite the proliferation of Korean language models, however, none of the proper evaluation datasets has been opened yet. The lack of such benchmark dataset limits the fair comparison between the models and further progress on model architectures.

Along with the benchmark tasks and data, we provide suitable evaluation metrics and fine-tuning recipes for pretrained language models for each task. We furthermore release the PLMs, KLUE-BERT and KLUE-RoBERTa, to help reproducing baseline models on KLUE and thereby facilitate future research.

See our paper for more details.

In designing the Korean Language Understanding Evaluation (KLUE) benchmark, we aim to make KLUE;

1. cover diverse tasks and corpora
2. accessible to everyone without any restriction
3. include accurate and unambiguous annotations
4. mitigate AI ethical issues.

KLUE benchmark is composed of 8 tasks:

• Topic Classification (TC)
• Sentence Textual Similarity (STS)
• Natural Language Inference (NLI)
• Named Entity Recognition (NER)
• Relation Extraction (RE)
• (Part-Of-Speech) + Dependency Parsing (DP)
• Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC)
• Dialogue State Tracking (DST)

NOTE: In the paper, we describe more in detail how our 4 principles have guided creating KLUE from task selection, corpus selection, annotation protocols, determining evaluation metrics to baseline construction.

We have trained 2 models: KLUE-BERT and KLUE-RoBERTa.

NOTE: All baselines are going to be uploaded in Huggingface Model Hub until the end of May. Stay tuned!

Evaluation results of our PLMs and other baselines on KLUE benchmark. Bold shows the best performance across the modesl, and Italic indicates the best performance among BASE models.

https://klue-benchmark.com

Sungjoon Park, Jihyung Moon, Sungdong Kim, Won Ik Cho, Jiyoon Han, Jangwon Park, Chisung Song, Junseong Kim, Youngsook Song, Taehwan Oh, Joohong Lee, Juhyung Oh, Sungwon Ryu, Younghoon Jeong, Inkwon Lee, Sangwoo Seo, Dongjun Lee, Hyungwoo Kim, Myeonghwa Lee, Seongbo Jang, Seungwon Do, Sunkyoung Kim, Kyungtae Lim, Jongwon Lee, Kyumin Park, Jamin Shin, Seonghyun Kim, Lucy Park

Alice Oh, Jung-Woo Ha, Kyunghyun Cho

• Platinum: Upstage, NAVER Clova, Google
• Gold: Kakao Enterprise
• Silver: Scatter Lab, Selectstar
• Bronze: Riiid, DeepNatural, KAIST
• Data Providers: Acrofan, KED

• Host: Upstage
• Co-organizers: Naver AI Labs, NYU, KAIST
• Research Collaborators: Kakao Enterprise, Scatter Lab, Riiid, Seoul National Univ., Yonsei Univ., Sogang Univ., Kyunghee Univ., Hanbat National Univ.

@misc{park2021klue,
      title={KLUE: Korean Language Understanding Evaluation}, 
      author={Sungjoon Park and Jihyung Moon and Sungdong Kim and Won Ik Cho and Jiyoon Han and Jangwon Park and Chisung Song and Junseong Kim and Yongsook Song and Taehwan Oh and Joohong Lee and Juhyun Oh and Sungwon Lyu and Younghoon Jeong and Inkwon Lee and Sangwoo Seo and Dongjun Lee and Hyunwoo Kim and Myeonghwa Lee and Seongbo Jang and Seungwon Do and Sunkyoung Kim and Kyungtae Lim and Jongwon Lee and Kyumin Park and Jamin Shin and Seonghyun Kim and Lucy Park and Alice Oh and Jungwoo Ha and Kyunghyun Cho},
      year={2021},
      eprint={2105.09680},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

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