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    <abstract>Despite the recent success of deep neural networks in natural language processing, the extent to which they can demonstrate human-like generalization capacities for natural language understanding remains unclear. We explore this issue in the domain of natural language inference (NLI), focusing on the transitivity of inference relations, a fundamental property for systematically drawing inferences. A model capturing transitivity can compose basic inference patterns and draw new inferences. We introduce an analysis method using synthetic and naturalistic NLI datasets involving clause-embedding verbs to evaluate whether models can perform transitivity inferences composed of veridical inferences and arbitrary inference types. We find that current NLI models do not perform consistently well on transitivity inference tasks, suggesting that they lack the generalization capacity for drawing composite inferences from provided training examples. The data and code for our analysis are publicly available at https://github.com/verypluming/transitivity.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Exploring Transitivity in Neural NLI Models through Veridicality
%A Yanaka, Hitomi
%A Mineshima, Koji
%A Inui, Kentaro
%Y Merlo, Paola
%Y Tiedemann, Jorg
%Y Tsarfaty, Reut
%S Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume
%D 2021
%8 April
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online
%F yanaka-etal-2021-exploring
%X Despite the recent success of deep neural networks in natural language processing, the extent to which they can demonstrate human-like generalization capacities for natural language understanding remains unclear. We explore this issue in the domain of natural language inference (NLI), focusing on the transitivity of inference relations, a fundamental property for systematically drawing inferences. A model capturing transitivity can compose basic inference patterns and draw new inferences. We introduce an analysis method using synthetic and naturalistic NLI datasets involving clause-embedding verbs to evaluate whether models can perform transitivity inferences composed of veridical inferences and arbitrary inference types. We find that current NLI models do not perform consistently well on transitivity inference tasks, suggesting that they lack the generalization capacity for drawing composite inferences from provided training examples. The data and code for our analysis are publicly available at https://github.com/verypluming/transitivity.
%R 10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.78
%U https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.78
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.78
%P 920-934

Markdown (Informal)

[Exploring Transitivity in Neural NLI Models through Veridicality](https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.78) (Yanaka et al., EACL 2021)

• Exploring Transitivity in Neural NLI Models through Veridicality (Yanaka et al., EACL 2021)

ACL

• Hitomi Yanaka, Koji Mineshima, and Kentaro Inui. 2021. Exploring Transitivity in Neural NLI Models through Veridicality. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, pages 920–934, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.