Down and Across: Introducing Crossword-Solving as a New NLP Benchmark (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in NLP have led to a growing demand for challenging tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose to solve crossword puzzles as a natural language understanding task . they release a corpus of crossword clues from the daily crossword spanning 25 years . |
| Outcome: | The proposed task is based on a corpus of crossword puzzles from the new york times daily crossword spanning 25 years . the dataset contains over half a million unique clue-answer pairs . |
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