# ScandEval

A Scandinavian Natural Language Understanding Benchmark

The ScandEval benchmark can be used to compare both pretrained language models on Scandinavian language tasks, as well as comparing finetuned models on the tasks they were finetuned for. The benchmark evaluates the models on a variety of tasks: part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, named entity recognition and various classification tasks. By “Scandinavian” we here mean Danish, Swedish, Norwegian (both Bokmål and Nynorsk), Icelandic and Faroese.

The Pretrained Benchmark contains the result of finetuning the language model 10 times, and evaluating each of these 10 finetuned models on the test set of the given dataset along with 9 bootstrapped versions of the dataset. The mean of the resulting 100 scores for the given (model, dataset) pair are then presented in the leaderboard, with an associated 95% confidence interval.

The Finetuned Benchmark is computed in the sammer manner, except that we have not finetuned the models in question, but solely evaluated the finetuned model on the test set and 9 bootstrapped versions of the test set. The resulting 95% confidence interval will thus be wider than the pretrained benchmark results, as we have to take the variability of the initialised parameters of the model into account.

All benchmark results have been computed using the associated ScandEval Python package, which you can use to replicate the results as well. A paper on the package and leaderboards is in preparation, describing the methodology and all the datasets used in more depth.