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title = "Context Matters: A Pragmatic Study of {PLM}s{'} Negation Understanding",
author = "Gubelmann, Reto and
Handschuh, Siegfried",
editor = "Muresan, Smaranda and
Nakov, Preslav and
Villavicencio, Aline",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = may,
year = "2022",
address = "Dublin, Ireland",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.315",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.315",
pages = "4602--4621",
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.",
}
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Markdown (Informal)
[Context Matters: A Pragmatic Study of PLMs’ Negation Understanding](https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.315) (Gubelmann & Handschuh, ACL 2022)
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