license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
language:
- fr
configs:
- config_name: qfrblimp
data_files:
- split: test
path: qfrblimp.jsonl
pretty_name: QFrBLiMP
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
QFrBLiMP Dataset Card
The Quebec-French Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs (QFrBLiMP).
Dataset Summary
QFrBLiMP is a corpus designed to evaluate Large Language Models' (LLMs) linguistic knowledge of prominent grammatical phenomena in Quebec-French. It comprises 1,761 minimal pairs annotated with 20 linguistic phenomena (LPs).
Specifically, these minimal pairs have been created by manually modifying sentences extracted from the Banque de dépannage linguistique (BDL), an official online resource maintained by the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF). Each pair consists of a grammatical sentence and an ungrammatical one, differing by a minimal edit (e.g., morphology, syntax, or lexical choice). The dataset also includes human annotations from 12 native Quebec-French speakers to compare model competency with human performance.
Dataset Structure
Each entry represents a minimal pair.
{
"sentence_good": "Après tous ces efforts, elles se sont senties très fatiguées.",
"sentence_bad": "Après tous ces efforts, elles se sont senti très fatiguées.",
"linguistic_phenomenon": "Accords participes passés (Past participle agreements)",
"phenomenon_id": 1,
"source": "Banque de dépannage linguistique (BDL)"
}
Dataset Statistics
The corpus consists of 1,761 minimal pairs across 20 linguistic phenomena. The distribution is as follows:
| ID | Linguistic Phenomena (French / English) | # Pairs |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accords participes passés (Past participle agreements) | 97 |
| 2 | Flexion du verbe (Verb inflection) | 95 |
| 3 | ne ... que (only ... that) | 97 |
| 4 | Sélection morphologie fonctionnelle (Functional morphology selection) | 96 |
| 5 | Clitique dans la négation de l'infinitif (Clitics in infinitive negation) | 99 |
| 6 | Montée du clitique (Rising clitics) | 97 |
| 7 | Négation standard (Standard negation) | 114 |
| 8 | Déterminants (Determinants) | 106 |
| 9 | Sémantique lexicale (Lexical semantics) | 113 |
| 10 | Accord dans l'expression idiomatique (Agreement in idiomatic expression) | 91 |
| 11 | Accord des adjectifs (Adjective agreement) | 100 |
| 12 | -é / -er | 100 |
| 13 | Sélection lexicale du complément (Lexical selection of the complement) | 96 |
| 14 | Négation de l'infinitif (Infinitive negation) | 97 |
| 15 | Îlot sujet (Subject island) | 60 |
| 16 | Îlot ajout (Addition island) | 60 |
| 17 | Îlot qu- (Island qu-) | 60 |
| 18 | Îlot SN (SN island) | 60 |
| 19 | Dépendance parasitique avec dont (Parasitic dependence with including) | 60 |
| 20 | Préposition orpheline (Orphan preposition) | 63 |
| Total | 1,761 |
Dataset Specs
- Language: Quebec-French (fr-CA)
- License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Task: Linguistic Minimal Pair evaluation (Grammaticality judgment)
Dataset Sources
- Repository: GitHub - davebulaval/QFrBLiMP
- Paper: QFrBLiMP: a Quebec-French Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs
- Original Source: Banque de dépannage linguistique (OQLF)
Citation
BibTeX:
@inproceedings{beauchemin2025qfrblimp,
title={QFrBLiMP: a Quebec-French Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs},
author={Beauchemin, David and Veilleux, Pier-Luc and Khoury, Richard and Roy, Johanna-Pascale},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
year={2025}
}