Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: LLMs have demonstrated remarkable capability for understanding semantics, but their understanding of pragmatics is not well studied.To this end, we release a Pragmatics Understanding Benchmark (PUB) dataset consisting of fourteen tasks in four pragmatics phenomena, namely, Implicature, Presupposition, Reference, and Deixis.We curate high-quality test sets for each task, consisting of Multiple Choice Question Answers (MCQA).PUB includes a total of 28k data points, 6.1k are newly annotated.We evaluate nine models varying in the number of parameters and type of training.Our study reveals several key observations about the pragmatic capabilities of LLMs: 1. chat-fine-tuning strongly benefits smaller models, 2. large base models are competitive with their chat-fine-tuned counterparts, 3. there is a huge variance in performance across different pragmatics phenomena, and 4. a noticeable performance gap between human capabilities and model capabilities.We hope that PUB will enable comprehensive evaluation of LLM's pragmatic reasoning capabilities.
Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Language: English
Topic: Topic Modeling
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4402670074