@inproceedings{wang-etal-2024-knowcomp,
title = "{K}now{C}omp at {S}em{E}val-2024 Task 9: Conceptualization-Augmented Prompting with Large Language Models for Lateral Reasoning",
author = "Wang, Weiqi and
Xu, Baixuan and
Shi, Haochen and
Bai, Jiaxin and
Hu, Qi and
Song, Yangqiu",
editor = {Ojha, Atul Kr. and
Do{\u{g}}ru{\"o}z, A. Seza and
Tayyar Madabushi, Harish and
Da San Martino, Giovanni and
Rosenthal, Sara and
Ros{\'a}, Aiala},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)",
month = jun,
year = "2024",
address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.semeval-1.233",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.semeval-1.233",
pages = "1639--1645",
abstract = "Lateral thinking is essential in breaking away from conventional thought patterns and finding innovative solutions to problems. Despite this, language models often struggle with reasoning tasks that require lateral thinking. In this paper, we present our system for SemEval-2024 Task 9{'}s BrainTeaser challenge, which requires language models to answer brain teaser questions that typically involve lateral reasoning scenarios. Our framework is based on large language models and incorporates a zero-shot prompting method that integrates conceptualizations of automatically detected instances in the question. We also transform the task of question answering into a declarative format to enhance the discriminatory ability of large language models. Our zero-shot evaluation results with ChatGPT indicate that our approach outperforms baselines, including zero-shot and few-shot prompting and chain-of-thought reasoning. Additionally, our system ranks ninth on the official leaderboard, demonstrating its strong performance.",
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%T KnowComp at SemEval-2024 Task 9: Conceptualization-Augmented Prompting with Large Language Models for Lateral Reasoning
%A Wang, Weiqi
%A Xu, Baixuan
%A Shi, Haochen
%A Bai, Jiaxin
%A Hu, Qi
%A Song, Yangqiu
%Y Ojha, Atul Kr.
%Y Doğruöz, A. Seza
%Y Tayyar Madabushi, Harish
%Y Da San Martino, Giovanni
%Y Rosenthal, Sara
%Y Rosá, Aiala
%S Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)
%D 2024
%8 June
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Mexico City, Mexico
%F wang-etal-2024-knowcomp
%X Lateral thinking is essential in breaking away from conventional thought patterns and finding innovative solutions to problems. Despite this, language models often struggle with reasoning tasks that require lateral thinking. In this paper, we present our system for SemEval-2024 Task 9’s BrainTeaser challenge, which requires language models to answer brain teaser questions that typically involve lateral reasoning scenarios. Our framework is based on large language models and incorporates a zero-shot prompting method that integrates conceptualizations of automatically detected instances in the question. We also transform the task of question answering into a declarative format to enhance the discriminatory ability of large language models. Our zero-shot evaluation results with ChatGPT indicate that our approach outperforms baselines, including zero-shot and few-shot prompting and chain-of-thought reasoning. Additionally, our system ranks ninth on the official leaderboard, demonstrating its strong performance.
%R 10.18653/v1/2024.semeval-1.233
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.semeval-1.233
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.semeval-1.233
%P 1639-1645
Markdown (Informal)
[KnowComp at SemEval-2024 Task 9: Conceptualization-Augmented Prompting with Large Language Models for Lateral Reasoning](https://aclanthology.org/2024.semeval-1.233) (Wang et al., SemEval 2024)
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