tensorflow/models · error · ValueError

language %s is not supported for XNLI task.

Error message

language %s is not supported for XNLI task.

What it means

Error "language %s is not supported for XNLI task." thrown in tensorflow/models.

Source

Thrown at official/nlp/data/classifier_data_lib.py:794

              weight=None))
    return examples


class XnliProcessor(DataProcessor):
  """Processor for the XNLI data set."""
  supported_languages = [
      "ar", "bg", "de", "el", "en", "es", "fr", "hi", "ru", "sw", "th", "tr",
      "ur", "vi", "zh"
  ]

  def __init__(self,
               language="en",
               process_text_fn=tokenization.convert_to_unicode):
    super(XnliProcessor, self).__init__(process_text_fn)
    if language == "all":
      self.languages = XnliProcessor.supported_languages
    elif language not in XnliProcessor.supported_languages:
      raise ValueError("language %s is not supported for XNLI task." % language)
    else:
      self.languages = [language]

  def get_train_examples(self, data_dir):
    """See base class."""
    lines = []
    for language in self.languages:
      # Skips the header.
      lines.extend(
          self._read_tsv(
              os.path.join(data_dir, "multinli",
                           "multinli.train.%s.tsv" % language))[1:])

    examples = []
    for i, line in enumerate(lines):
      guid = "train-%d" % i
      text_a = self.process_text_fn(line[0])
      text_b = self.process_text_fn(line[1])

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at official/nlp/data/classifier_data_lib.py:794 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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