Natural Language Task Descriptions

This page is about natural language task descriptions, which use natural language to describe tasks to be performed. This is similar to prompting, but the focus is on using the descriptions to generalize to new tasks, rather than focusing on improving performance on specific task(s).

• Goldwasser & Roth 2014 - Learning From Natural Instructions
• Mishra et al 2021 - Natural-Instructions: Benchmarking Generalization to New Tasks from Natural Language Instructions

• Few-Shot Learning
• Prompting
• Zero-Shot Learning