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---
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.
```json
{
"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}
}
```