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PARus (Choice of Plausible Alternatives for Russian language)

Introduced by Tatiana Shavrina et al. in RussianSuperGLUE: A Russian Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark29 Oct 2020 archive 2025-07-28

Choice of Plausible Alternatives for Russian language (PARus) evaluation provides researchers with a tool for assessing progress in open-domain commonsense causal reasoning. Each question in PARus is composed of a premise and two alternatives, where the task is to select the alternative that more plausibly has a causal relation with the premise. The correct alternative is randomized so that the expected performance of randomly guessing is 50%.

Task Type

Evaluation of commonsense causal reasoning

Sentence Pair Classification: suitable - not suitable

Example
{
  "premise": "Гости вечеринки прятались за диваном.",
  "choice1": "Это была вечеринка-сюрприз.",
  "choice2":"Это был день рождения.",
  "question": "cause",
  "label": 0,
  "idx": 4
}
How did we collect data?

All text examples were collected from open news sources and literary magazines, then manually reviewed and supplemented by a human assessment on Yandex.Toloka

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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First row (archive order)PaperCode
Common Sense Reasoning PARus Human Benchmark Accuracy 0.982 RussianSuperGLUE: A Russian Language Understanding... RussianNLP/RussianSuperGLUE +1 22 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

3 shown of 3 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 7. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
Unreasonable Effectiveness of Rule-Based Heuristics in Solving Russian SuperGLUE Tasks 0 3 3 May 2021 not harvested
RussianSuperGLUE: A Russian Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark 2 2 29 Oct 2020 ran 1 of 1 samples (0 unverified)
mT5: A massively multilingual pre-trained text-to-text transformer 8 1 22 Oct 2020 ran 0 of 13 samples (13 unverified)

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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License archive 2025-07-28

MIT License

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • PARus

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