---
license: mit
language:
- en
task_categories:
- text-generation
pretty_name: COLLIE
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: test
    path: test.parquet
---

# COLLIE: Systematic Construction of Constrained Text Generation Tasks

- Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08689
- Code / original data: https://github.com/princeton-nlp/Collie (MIT)
- Source file: `https://collie-benchmark.github.io/data/all_data.dill`

## Contents

1,306 constrained-generation instances (one `test` split) covering 13 constraint
structures across word, sentence, paragraph and passage level. Text is drawn from
Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, CC-News and an English word list.

| column | type | description |
|---|---|---|
| `source` | str | `wiki`, `guten`, `ccnews` or `english` |
| `constraint_id` | str | one of `c01`–`c05`, `c06a`, `c07`–`c12`, `c14` (paper Table 1) |
| `constraint` | str | human-readable rendering of the constraint structure |
| `prompt` | str | natural-language instruction given to the model |
| `example` | str | a reference text from the corpus that satisfies the constraint |
| `targets` | str (JSON) | instance-specific constraint values (int, list of str, …) |
| `metadata` | str (JSON) | source document metadata (title, index, author) |


## Citation

```bibtex
@misc{yao2023collie,
  title={{COLLIE}: Systematic Construction of Constrained Text Generation Tasks},
  author={Shunyu Yao and Howard Chen and Austin W. Hanjie and Runzhe Yang and Karthik Narasimhan},
  year={2023},
  eprint={2307.08689},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
```