Work

Context Matters: A Pragmatic Study of PLMs’ Negation Understanding

Year: 2022

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In linguistics, there are two main perspectives on negation: a semantic and a pragmatic view.So far, research in NLP on negation has almost exclusively adhered to the semantic view.In this article, we adopt the pragmatic paradigm to conduct a study of negation understanding focusing on transformer-based PLMs.Our results differ from previous, semantics-based studies and therefore help to contribute a more comprehensive -and, given the results, much more optimistic -picture of the PLMs' negation understanding.

Source: Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.315

Authors: Reto Gubelmann, Siegfried Handschuh

Institution: University of St.Gallen

Language: English

Topic: Natural Language Processing Techniques

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4285287265

FWCI: 2.349

Cites: 37

Cited by: 18

Related to: 10