✏️ A fill-in-the-blanks test 🤖 A masked word task

cloze test

7.4

A task where a computer model predicts missing words in a text

noun
/kloʊz tɛst/

Specialized

: prueba cloze

During pretraining, the model learns through a cloze test objective by predicting masked tokens.

Examples

The tutorial asked students to implement a simple cloze test to evaluate their language model's accuracy.
Researchers compared models using a challenging cloze test containing idioms and rare vocabulary items.
The teacher administered a cloze test to evaluate comprehension.
Many students find a cloze test challenging yet effective.
In computational linguistics, a cloze test is often used to train models by having them predict the missing words in a text.
To assess their knowledge, the students were given a cloze test where they had to fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
During the workshop, participants learned how to create a cloze test to help evaluate the predictions of their language model.

Synonyms

cloze procedure

vscloze test

Specialized

7.5

A test where words are removed and you fill in the blanks to check reading or teach computers to read

is a machine learning evaluation that hides tokens for models to predict

Surface Forms

cloze test singular

cloze tests plural

Morphology

cloze + test

This is a straightforward modifier + head compound: 'cloze' names the format (removing words) and 'test' names the event, so the MWE literally denotes a test in the cloze format. A B1 learner who knows both constituent meanings can therefore derive the overall meaning without prior exposure.

Etymology

Cloze test in language technology comes from cloze, a form of the word 'close' that means filling gaps in a text. A computer model sees a text with hidden words and must predict them to 'close' the text, so this task is used to train and test language models.