English to Russian Proverbs

An 80-item BIG-bench task that picks the Russian proverb closest in non-literal meaning to an English proverb.

Also known as: english_russian_proverbs_json_multiple_choice, BIG-bench english_russian_proverbs

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Categoryreasoning
SubcategoryBIG-bench English-to-Russian proverb analogy (80 four-way items)
Page statusunknown
Metricmultiple_choice_grade
Directionhigher_is_better
Unit%
Dataset size80
Dataset licenceApache-2.0
PublisherGoogle (BIG-bench collaboration)

What it measures

english_russian_proverbs gives an English proverb or idiom and four Russian sayings. The model must choose the Russian item whose non-literal meaning is closest, not the literal gloss. Denis Kleyko and Cameron Diao wrote the 80 four-way items. Distractors were chosen to be unrelated or to share surface nouns and verbs with the query so that word-for-word translation is a trap. Source lists named in the README are Bodrova (2007), Gvarjalaże and Mchedlishvili (1971), and Wikiquote's Russian proverbs page. The skill is cross-lingual figurative analogy, not [flores](flores.md)-style translation and not [english_proverbs](english_proverbs.md).

Task format

Four-option multiple choice, preferred metric multiple_choice_grade. task_prefix asks for a Russian proverb/idiom close in meaning. example_input_prefix is "English proverb:"; example_output_prefix is "Russian proverb:". append_choices_to_input is true. Keywords include zero-shot, one-shot, and many-shot. Canary GUID embedded.

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Data

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