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Grammatical error in squad task 5ad2b72fd7d075001a42a022

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by masharpe - opened

Hi, I love what you're doing here to clean these benchmarks, and while using the webtool, I found a grammatical error in one of the squad tasks that o1 (high) fails.

id = 5ad2b72fd7d075001a42a022

Question: When did Francia discover that the Rhine entered had entered their borders?

The word "entered" appears twice here, presumably by accident, since the sentence is ungrammatical as written. However, I am not sure what the correction should be, since (for example)

Question: When did Francia discover that the Rhine had entered their borders?

though now grammatical, is still a strange question to ask: it's not clear to me what it even means to "discover" that a river has entered your borders. Is the intent here something like

Question: When was the Rhine first within the borders of Francia?

Madry Lab org

Hi! Thanks for checking out our work!

We also noticed that many of the original benchmarks had grammatical issues (on top of all their other issues).

However, in our work we decide to limit ourselves to either (1) changing the label if an example is mislabeled, and (2) removing the question if their is a sufficient concern with the question itself (e.g. ambiguity). In other words, we didn't manually revise questions to adjust their wording; we felt it would both be very time consuming, and many questions don't have a clear "fix".

In terms of this specific question, it seemed clear to me that the intention of this question is to ask when Francia found out that the Rhine was within their borders, which is not stated in the passage, making the question unanswerable (aka N/A). These "unanswerable" SQuAD2.0 questions are intentionally somewhat confusing; we removed a ton of them (I think a majority) from the benchmark but kept ones we felt were clear enough to not be ambiguous.

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