---
language: en
widget:
 - text: 'define "toecoin": toecoin rose by 200% after Elon Musk mentioned it in his tweet'
datasets:
- 'marksverdhei/wordnet-definitions-en-2021'
---

# T5-define  

(This model is still a work in progress. If you use it for fine tuning, make sure to save a local copy)

This model is trained to generate word definitions based on the word and a context,
using a subset of wordnet for all words that have an example and definition.
The model uses task prompts on the format 'define "[word]": [example sentence]'

This model in particular is a one-shot learner for unseen words, as it has to infer the definition by only one example

How to run:
```python
from transformers import T5ForConditionalGeneration, T5Tokenizer

tokenizer = T5Tokenizer.from_pretrained("marksverdhei/t5-base-define")
model = T5ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("marksverdhei/t5-base-define")

prompt = "define \"noseplow\": The children hid as the noseplow drove across the street"

ids = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").input_ids
generated_tokens = model.generate(ids)[0][1:-1]
print(tokenizer.decode(generated_tokens))
```

See the gist for the source code to used to train the model:

https://gist.github.com/marksverdhei/0a13f67e65460b71c05fcf558a6a91ae