metadata
configs:
- config_name: amh
data_files:
- split: train
path: amh/amh_all.csv
- config_name: amh_fill_blank
data_files:
- split: train_1
path: amh/amh_fill_1.csv
- split: train_2
path: amh/amh_fill_2.csv
- split: train_3
path: amh/amh_fill_3.csv
- split: valid
path: amh/amh_fill_valid.csv
- config_name: amh_choice_english
data_files:
- split: english_1
path: amh/amh_english_test_1.csv
- split: english_2
path: amh/amh_english_test_2.csv
- split: english_3
path: amh/amh_english_test_3.csv
- split: english_4
path: amh/amh_english_test_4.csv
- split: english_5
path: amh/amh_english_test_5.csv
- config_name: translate_amh_choice_english
data_files:
- split: english_1
path: translate-test/amh/amh_english_test_1.csv
- split: english_2
path: translate-test/amh/amh_english_test_2.csv
- split: english_3
path: translate-test/amh/amh_english_test_3.csv
- config_name: amh_choice_native
data_files:
- split: native_1
path: amh/amh_native_test_1.csv
- split: native_2
path: amh/amh_native_test_2.csv
- split: native_3
path: amh/amh_native_test_3.csv
- split: native_4
path: amh/amh_native_test_4.csv
- split: native_5
path: amh/amh_native_test_5.csv
- config_name: translate_amh_choice_native
data_files:
- split: native_1
path: translate-test/amh/amh_native_test_1.csv
- split: native_2
path: translate-test/amh/amh_native_test_2.csv
- split: native_3
path: translate-test/amh/amh_native_test_3.csv
- config_name: amh_generation
data_files:
- split: native
path: amh/amh_meaining_generation_native.csv
- split: english
path: amh/amh_meaining_generation_english.csv
- config_name: eng
data_files:
- split: train
path: eng/eng_all.csv
- config_name: eng_fill_blank
data_files:
- split: train_1
path: eng/eng_fill_1.csv
- split: train_2
path: eng/eng_fill_2.csv
- split: train_3
path: eng/eng_fill_3.csv
- split: valid
path: eng/eng_fill_valid.csv
- config_name: eng_generation
data_files:
- split: native
path: eng/eng_meaining_generation_native.csv
- config_name: eng_choice_native
data_files:
- split: native_1
path: eng/eng_native_test_1.csv
- split: native_2
path: eng/eng_native_test_2.csv
- split: native_3
path: eng/eng_native_test_3.csv
- config_name: eng_choice_native
data_files:
- split: native_1
path: eng/eng_native_test_1.csv
- split: native_2
path: eng/eng_native_test_2.csv
- split: native_3
path: eng/eng_native_test_3.csv
- split: native_4
path: eng/eng_native_test_4.csv
- split: native_5
path: eng/eng_native_test_5.csv
- config_name: gez_fill_blank
data_files:
- split: train_1
path: geez/geez_fill_1.csv
- split: train_2
path: geez/geez_fill_2.csv
- split: train_3
path: geez/geez_fill_3.csv
- split: valid
path: geez/gez_fill_valid.csv
- config_name: gez_choice_english
data_files:
- split: english_1
path: geez/geez_english_test_1.csv
- split: english_2
path: geez/geez_english_test_2.csv
- split: english_3
path: geez/geez_english_test_3.csv
- split: english_4
path: geez/geez_english_test_4.csv
- split: english_5
path: geez/geez_english_test_5.csv
- config_name: gez_choice_native
data_files:
- split: native_1
path: geez/geez_native_test_1.csv
- split: native_2
path: geez/geez_native_test_2.csv
- split: native_3
path: geez/geez_native_test_3.csv
- split: native_4
path: geez/geez_native_test_4.csv
- split: native_5
path: geez/geez_native_test_5.csv
- config_name: gez_generation
data_files:
- split: native
path: geez/gez-native-description.csv
- split: english
path: geez/geez_meaining_generation_english.csv
- config_name: orm
data_files:
- split: train
path: orm/orm_all.csv
- config_name: orm_choice_english
data_files:
- split: english_1
path: orm/orm_english_test_1.csv
- split: english_2
path: orm/orm_english_test_2.csv
- split: english_3
path: orm/orm_english_test_3.csv
- split: english_4
path: orm/orm_english_test_4.csv
- split: english_5
path: orm/orm_english_test_5.csv
- config_name: translate_orm_choice_english
data_files:
- split: english_1
path: translate-test/orm/orm_english_test_1.csv
- split: english_2
path: translate-test/orm/orm_english_test_2.csv
- split: english_3
path: translate-test/orm/orm_english_test_3.csv
- config_name: orm_choice_native
data_files:
- split: native_1
path: orm/orm_native_test_1.csv
- split: native_2
path: orm/orm_native_test_2.csv
- split: native_3
path: orm/orm_native_test_3.csv
- split: native_4
path: orm/orm_native_test_4.csv
- split: native_5
path: orm/orm_native_test_5.csv
- config_name: translate_orm_choice_native
data_files:
- split: native_1
path: translate-test/orm/orm_native_test_1.csv
- split: native_2
path: translate-test/orm/orm_native_test_2.csv
- split: native_3
path: translate-test/orm/orm_native_test_3.csv
- config_name: orm_generation
data_files:
- split: native
path: orm/orm_meaining_generation_native.csv
- split: english
path: orm/orm_meaining_generation_english.csv
- config_name: orm_fill_blank
data_files:
- split: train_1
path: orm/orm_fill_1.csv
- split: train_2
path: orm/orm_fill_2.csv
- split: train_3
path: orm/orm_fill_3.csv
- split: valid
path: orm/orm_fill_valid.csv
- config_name: tir
data_files:
- split: train
path: tir/tir_all.csv
- config_name: tir_fill_blank
data_files:
- split: train_1
path: tir/tir_fill_1.csv
- split: train_2
path: tir/tir_fill_2.csv
- split: train_3
path: tir/tir_fill_3.csv
- split: valid
path: tir/tir_fill_valid.csv
- config_name: tir_generation
data_files:
- split: native
path: tir/tir_meaining_generation_native.csv
- split: english
path: tir/tir_meaining_generation_english.csv
- config_name: tir_choice_english
data_files:
- split: english_1
path: tir/tir_english_test_1.csv
- split: english_2
path: tir/tir_english_test_2.csv
- split: english_3
path: tir/tir_english_test_3.csv
- split: english_4
path: tir/tir_english_test_4.csv
- split: english_5
path: tir/tir_english_test_5.csv
- config_name: tir_choice_native
data_files:
- split: native_1
path: tir/tir_native_test_1.csv
- split: native_2
path: tir/tir_native_test_2.csv
- split: native_3
path: tir/tir_native_test_3.csv
- split: native_4
path: tir/tir_native_test_4.csv
- split: native_5
path: tir/tir_native_test_5.csv
- config_name: translate_tir_choice_english
data_files:
- split: english_1
path: translate-test/tir/tir_english_test_1.csv
- split: english_2
path: translate-test/tir/tir_english_test_2.csv
- split: english_3
path: translate-test/tir/tir_english_test_3.csv
- config_name: translate_tir_choice_native
data_files:
- split: native_1
path: translate-test/tir/tir_native_test_1.csv
- split: native_2
path: translate-test/tir/tir_native_test_2.csv
- split: native_3
path: translate-test/tir/tir_native_test_3.csv
ProverbEval: Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Low-Resource Proverbs
This dataset accompanies the paper:
"ProverbEval: Exploring LLM Evaluation Challenges for Low-resource Language Understanding"
ArXiv:2411.05049v3
Dataset Summary
ProverbEval is a culturally grounded evaluation benchmark designed to assess the language understanding abilities of large language models (LLMs) in low-resource settings. It consists of tasks based on proverbs in five languages:
- Amharic
- Afaan Oromo
- Tigrinya
- Ge’ez
- English
The benchmark focuses on three tasks:
- Task 1: Multiple Choice Meaning Matching
- Task 2: Fill-in-the-Blank
- Task 3: Proverb Generation
Supported Tasks and Formats
Each task is formatted to support multilingual and cross-lingual evaluation:
Task 1: Meaning Multiple Choice
- Input: A proverb in a given language.
- Output: Select one correct meaning from four choices.
- Format: Multiple-choice question with optional language variants for choices (native or English).
Task 2: Fill-in-the-Blank
- Input: A proverb with one word removed and four candidate words.
- Output: Select the most suitable word to complete the proverb.
- Format: Cloze-style multiple-choice.
Task 3: Generation
- Input: A detailed description of a proverb in English or the native language.
- Output: The matching proverb generated in the target language.
- Format: Text generation.
Languages and Statistics
| Language | Task 1 | Task 2 | Task 3 |
|--------------|--------|--------|--------|
| Amharic | 483 | 494 | 484 |
| Afaan Oromo | 502 | 493 | 502 |
| Tigrinya | 380 | 503 | 380 |
| Ge’ez | 434 | 429 | 434 |
| English | 437 | 462 | 437 |
Note: The dataset focuses on test sets only. Few-shot examples are also included for Task 2.
Data Structure
Each example includes the following fields (depending on the task):
languagetaskpromptchoicesordescriptionanswerortarget_proverbprompt_type(native or English)choice_language(native or English)
Usage
You can load the dataset directly using the datasets library:
from datasets import load_dataset
# Load the full dataset
dataset = load_dataset("israel/ProverbEval")
.
├── amh
│ ├── amharic-fill_test.csv
│ ├── amh_english_test_1.csv
│ ├── amh_english_test_2.csv
│ ├── amh_english_test_3.csv
│ ├── amh_fill_1.csv
│ ├── amh_fill_2.csv
│ ├── amh_fill_3.csv
│ ├── amh_meaining_generation_english.csv
│ ├── amh_meaining_generation_native.csv
│ ├── amh_native_test_1.csv
│ ├── amh_native_test_2.csv
│ └── amh_native_test_3.csv
├── eng
│ ├── eng_fill_test.csv
│ ├── eng_meaining_generation_native.csv
│ ├── eng_native_test_1.csv
│ ├── eng_native_test_2.csv
│ └── eng_native_test_3.csv
├── geez
│ ├── geez_english_test_1.csv
│ ├── geez_english_test_2.csv
│ ├── geez_english_test_3.csv
│ ├── geez_fill_1.csv
│ ├── geez_fill_2.csv
│ ├── geez_fill_3.csv
│ └── geez_meaining_generation_english.csv
├── orm
│ ├── orm_english_test_1.csv
│ ├── orm_english_test_2.csv
│ ├── orm_english_test_3.csv
│ ├── orm_fill_1.csv
│ ├── orm_fill_2.csv
│ ├── orm_fill_3.csv
│ ├── orm_meaining_generation_english.csv
│ ├── orm_meaining_generation_native.csv
│ ├── orm_native_test_1.csv
│ ├── orm_native_test_2.csv
│ ├── orm_native_test_3.csv
│ └── oromo_fill_test.csv
└── tir
├── tir_fill_1.csv
├── tir_fill_2.csv
└── tir_fill_3.csv
@article{azime2024proverbeval,
title={ProverbEval: Exploring LLM Evaluation Challenges for Low-resource Language Understanding},
author={Azime, Israel Abebe and Tonja, Atnafu Lambebo and Belay, Tadesse Destaw and Chanie, Yonas and Balcha, Bontu Fufa and Abadi, Negasi Haile and Ademtew, Henok Biadglign and Nerea, Mulubrhan Abebe and Yadeta, Debela Desalegn and Geremew, Derartu Dagne and others},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.05049},
year={2024}
}