README.md

---
language:
- en
license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
pretty_name: DiPlomat
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# DiPlomat

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Pragmatic reasoning plays a pivotal role in deciphering implicit meanings that frequently arise in real-life 
conversations and is essential for the development of communicative social agents. 
In this paper, we introduce a novel challenge, **DiPlomat**, aiming at benchmarking machines’ capabilities 
on pragmatic reasoning and situated conversational understanding. 
Compared with previous works that treat different figurative expressions 
(e.g. metaphor, sarcasm) as individual tasks, **DiPlomat** provides a cohesive framework 
towards general pragmatic understanding.
## Dataset Details
The **DiPlomat** dataset owns 4,177 data and covers a vocabulary of 48,900 words. 
More than that, human-annotated answers reach an amount of 6,494, 
hold a vocabulary size of 20,000, and cover 5 types of reasoning. 
Along with the dataset, we propose two tasks:  
**Pragmatic Identification and Reasoning (PIR)** and **Conversational Question Answering (CQA)**. Furthermore, we provide the
data that we use for **zero-NLI**.


- **Language(s) (NLP):** [English]
- **License:** [CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

### Dataset Sources 

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- **Repository:** [link](https://github.com/diplomat-dataset/diplomat)
- **Paper:** [DiPlomat: A Dialogue Dataset for Situated Pragmatic Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09030)
- **Website:** [link](https://diplomat-dataset.github.io)


## Dataset Structure

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| Field | Task| 
| --- | --- | 
| ``PIR_first`` | Pragmatic Identification and Reasoning Subtask1| 
| ``PIR_second`` | Pragmatic Identification and Reasoning Subtask2|
| ``CQA`` |  Conversational Question Answering|
| ``NLI_with_context`` | Zero-Shot NLI with context|
| ``NLI_without_context`` | Zero-Shot NLI without context|

**NOTE:** If you'd like to test on the whole PIR task, please don't change the order of PIR Subtask 1's and Subtask 2's test file's data, as both of them are deliberately arranged as the same order.



## Dataset Creation


### Source Data
We leverage the data of [INTERVIEW dataset](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/shuyangli94/interview-npr-media-dialog-transcripts) collected by 
Majumder et al as our source.
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### Annotating Process

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#### Step I. Automatic Selection:
The extensive size of the source dataset introduces redundancy, 
and thus requires automatic measures to alleviate the burden of human annotation. 
Therefore, we employ algorithms and models to perform an initial filtering process.
#### Step II. Fine-grained Annotation:
We leverage Amazon Mechanical Turk to conduct detailed annotations of pragmatic turns within our dialogues. 
Workers participating in the annotation task are instructed to select 
all turns that exhibit a divergence between their literal meaning and their intended meaning. 
Due to the subjective nature of pragmatic reasoning, we request the workers to provide confidence scores 
along with  reasons for their choices.
#### Step III. Human Refinement:
In this process, tasks for workers are formulated as multiple-choice questions. 
Previously collected human-annotated reasons are transformed into choices, utilizing a template format: 
[turn {turn_id}: {reason}]. In addition, to mitigate the impact of careless workers, 
we introduce a distractor choice for each gold choice.




## Citation 

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```
@inproceedings{li2023diplomat,
    title={DiPlomat: A Dialogue Dataset for Situated Pragmatic Reasoning},
    author={Hengli Li and Song-Chun Zhu and Zilong Zheng},
    booktitle={Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track},
    year={2023}
}
```

## Dataset Card Contact

If there is any problem with the dataset, please email [lihengli@stu.pku.edu.cn](mailto: 2000017754@stu.pku.edu.cn).