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DEFT Corpus

Introduced by Sasha Spala et al. in DEFT: A corpus for definition extraction in free- and semi-structured text1 Aug 2019 archive 2025-07-28

A SemEval shared task in which participants must extract definitions from free text using a term-definition pair corpus that reflects the complex reality of definitions in natural language.

Source: SemEval-2020 Task 6: Definition extraction from free text with the DEFT corpus

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

No paper in the archive has a leaderboard row on this dataset; the archive counts 14 papers for it but never published that list.

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

1 loader as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

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Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • DEFT Corpus

1 variant name, as the archive lists them.

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