Scientific and Creative Analogies in Pretrained Language Models

Tamara Czinczoll, Helen Yannakoudakis, Pushkar Mishra, Ekaterina Shutova


Abstract
This paper examines the encoding of analogy in large-scale pretrained language models, such as BERT and GPT-2. Existing analogy datasets typically focus on a limited set of analogical relations, with a high similarity of the two domains between which the analogy holds. As a more realistic setup, we introduce the Scientific and Creative Analogy dataset (SCAN), a novel analogy dataset containing systematic mappings of multiple attributes and relational structures across dissimilar domains. Using this dataset, we test the analogical reasoning capabilities of several widely-used pretrained language models (LMs). We find that state-of-the-art LMs achieve low performance on these complex analogy tasks, highlighting the challenges still posed by analogy understanding.
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2022.findings-emnlp.153
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
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December
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2022
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Yoav Goldberg, Zornitsa Kozareva, Yue Zhang
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2094–2100
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.153
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.153
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Tamara Czinczoll, Helen Yannakoudakis, Pushkar Mishra, and Ekaterina Shutova. 2022. Scientific and Creative Analogies in Pretrained Language Models. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, pages 2094–2100, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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