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title = "Investigating the Performance of Transformer-Based {NLI} Models on Presuppositional Inferences",
author = "Kabbara, Jad and
Cheung, Jackie Chi Kit",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Huang, Chu-Ren and
Kim, Hansaem and
Pustejovsky, James and
Wanner, Leo and
Choi, Key-Sun and
Ryu, Pum-Mo and
Chen, Hsin-Hsi and
Donatelli, Lucia and
Ji, Heng and
Kurohashi, Sadao and
Paggio, Patrizia and
Xue, Nianwen and
Kim, Seokhwan and
Hahm, Younggyun and
He, Zhong and
Lee, Tony Kyungil and
Santus, Enrico and
Bond, Francis and
Na, Seung-Hoon",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = oct,
year = "2022",
address = "Gyeongju, Republic of Korea",
publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.65/",
pages = "779--785",
abstract = "Presuppositions are assumptions that are taken for granted by an utterance, and identifying them is key to a pragmatic interpretation of language. In this paper, we investigate the capabilities of transformer models to perform NLI on cases involving presupposition. First, we present simple heuristics to create alternative {\textquotedblleft}contrastive{\textquotedblright} test cases based on the ImpPres dataset and investigate the model performance on those test cases. Second, to better understand how the model is making its predictions, we analyze samples from sub-datasets of ImpPres and examine model performance on them. Overall, our findings suggest that NLI-trained transformer models seem to be exploiting specific structural and lexical cues as opposed to performing some kind of pragmatic reasoning."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Investigating the Performance of Transformer-Based NLI Models on Presuppositional Inferences
%A Kabbara, Jad
%A Cheung, Jackie Chi Kit
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Huang, Chu-Ren
%Y Kim, Hansaem
%Y Pustejovsky, James
%Y Wanner, Leo
%Y Choi, Key-Sun
%Y Ryu, Pum-Mo
%Y Chen, Hsin-Hsi
%Y Donatelli, Lucia
%Y Ji, Heng
%Y Kurohashi, Sadao
%Y Paggio, Patrizia
%Y Xue, Nianwen
%Y Kim, Seokhwan
%Y Hahm, Younggyun
%Y He, Zhong
%Y Lee, Tony Kyungil
%Y Santus, Enrico
%Y Bond, Francis
%Y Na, Seung-Hoon
%S Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
%D 2022
%8 October
%I International Committee on Computational Linguistics
%C Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
%F kabbara-cheung-2022-investigating
%X Presuppositions are assumptions that are taken for granted by an utterance, and identifying them is key to a pragmatic interpretation of language. In this paper, we investigate the capabilities of transformer models to perform NLI on cases involving presupposition. First, we present simple heuristics to create alternative “contrastive” test cases based on the ImpPres dataset and investigate the model performance on those test cases. Second, to better understand how the model is making its predictions, we analyze samples from sub-datasets of ImpPres and examine model performance on them. Overall, our findings suggest that NLI-trained transformer models seem to be exploiting specific structural and lexical cues as opposed to performing some kind of pragmatic reasoning.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.65/
%P 779-785
Markdown (Informal)
[Investigating the Performance of Transformer-Based NLI Models on Presuppositional Inferences](https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.65/) (Kabbara & Cheung, COLING 2022)
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