Controllable Text Generation to Evaluate Linguistic Abilities of Italian LLMs

Cristiano Ciaccio, Felice Dell’orletta, Alessio Miaschi, Giulia Venturi


Abstract
State-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate exceptional proficiency across diverse tasks, yet systematic evaluations of their linguistic abilities remain limited. This paper addresses this gap by proposing a new evaluation framework leveraging the potentialities of Controllable Text Generation. Our approach evaluates the models’ capacity to generate sentences that adhere to specific linguistic constraints and their ability to recognize the linguistic properties of their own generated sentences, also in terms of consistency with the specified constraints. We tested our approach on six Italian LLMs using various linguistic constraints.
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2024.clicit-1.27
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Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024)
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December
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2024
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Pisa, Italy
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Felice Dell'Orletta, Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, Rachele Sprugnoli
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CLiC-it
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CEUR Workshop Proceedings
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221–232
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Cristiano Ciaccio, Felice Dell’orletta, Alessio Miaschi, and Giulia Venturi. 2024. Controllable Text Generation to Evaluate Linguistic Abilities of Italian LLMs. In Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024), pages 221–232, Pisa, Italy. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
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Controllable Text Generation to Evaluate Linguistic Abilities of Italian LLMs (Ciaccio et al., CLiC-it 2024)
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