# Winograd Schemas and Machine Translation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01884 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1608.01884/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 5 Aug 2016.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Unreasonable Effectiveness of Rule-Based Heuristics in Solving Russian SuperGLUE Tasks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.01192/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

A Winograd schema is a pair of sentences that differ in a single word and that contain an ambiguous pronoun whose referent is different in the two sentences and requires the use of commonsense knowledge or world knowledge to disambiguate. This paper discusses how Winograd schemas and other sentence pairs could be used as challenges for machine translation using distinctions between pronouns, such as gender, that appear in the target language but not in the source.