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DrBenchmark: The First-Ever Publicly Available French Biomedical Large Language Understanding Benchmark
A group of researchers in France introduced Dr.Benchmark to address the need for the evaluation of masked language models in French, particularly in the biomedical domain. There have been significant advances in the field of NLP, particularly in pre-trained language models (PLMs), but evaluating these models remains difficult due to variations in evaluation protocols.
Challenges in NLP Evaluation
The scarcity of evaluation benchmarks in the biomedical domain in languages other than English and Chinese has made this even more challenging. These issues created a gap in evaluating the accuracy of the latest French biomedical models.
Practical Solutions and Value
DrBenchmark is the first publicly available French biomedical language understanding benchmark. This benchmark comprises 20 diversified tasks, including named-entity recognition, part-of-speech tagging, question-answering, semantic textual similarity, and classification. The primary contribution of DrBenchmark is its aggregation of diverse downstream tasks into a single benchmark, allowing the assessment of pre-trained language models’ intrinsic qualities from various perspectives.
Automated Protocol for Fair Comparison
DrBenchmark offers a modular, reproducible, and easily customizable automated protocol for fair comparison among language models. It leverages the HuggingFace Datasets and the Transformers library for data loading, pre-training, and evaluation. The experimental protocol ensures consistency by fine-tuning all models using the same hyperparameters for each downstream task.
Insights and Implications
Results from the experiments reveal that no single model excels across all tasks, highlighting the importance of domain-specific models for achieving peak performance in the biomedical field. Even though French biomedical models exhibit superior performance in most tasks, certain out-of-domain models or models trained in different languages maintain competitiveness in specific tasks.
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