Cloze test

Appears in 1 paper

A reading comprehension exercise invented in 1953 where words are systematically removed from a passage and the reader must fill them in.

As used in Paper 11 — BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding →

A reading comprehension exercise invented in 1953 where words are systematically removed from a passage and the reader must fill them in. BERT's MLM is a neural implementation of a large-scale Cloze test.