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    <abstract>In complement coercion sentences, like *John began the book*, a covert event (e.g., reading) may be recovered based on lexical meanings, world knowledge, and context. We investigate how context influences coercion interpretation performance for 17 language models (LMs) in Norwegian, a low-resource language. Our new dataset contained isolated coercion sentences (context-neutral), plus the same sentences with a subject NP that suggests a particular covert event and sentences that have a similar effect but that precede or follow the coercion sentence. LMs generally benefit from contextual enrichment, but performance varies depending on the model. Models that struggled in context-neutral sentences showed greater improvements from contextual enrichment. Subject NPs and pre-coercion sentences had the largest effect in facilitating coercion interpretation.</abstract>
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%T Context Effects on the Interpretation of Complement Coercion: A Comparative Study with Language Models in Norwegian
%A Radaelli, Matteo
%A Chersoni, Emmanuele
%A Lenci, Alessandro
%A Baggio, Giosuè
%Y Evang, Kilian
%Y Kallmeyer, Laura
%Y Pogodalla, Sylvain
%S Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics
%D 2025
%8 September
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Düsseldorf, Germany
%@ 979-8-89176-316-6
%F radaelli-etal-2025-context
%X In complement coercion sentences, like *John began the book*, a covert event (e.g., reading) may be recovered based on lexical meanings, world knowledge, and context. We investigate how context influences coercion interpretation performance for 17 language models (LMs) in Norwegian, a low-resource language. Our new dataset contained isolated coercion sentences (context-neutral), plus the same sentences with a subject NP that suggests a particular covert event and sentences that have a similar effect but that precede or follow the coercion sentence. LMs generally benefit from contextual enrichment, but performance varies depending on the model. Models that struggled in context-neutral sentences showed greater improvements from contextual enrichment. Subject NPs and pre-coercion sentences had the largest effect in facilitating coercion interpretation.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.iwcs-main.7/
%P 78-88

Markdown (Informal)

[Context Effects on the Interpretation of Complement Coercion: A Comparative Study with Language Models in Norwegian](https://aclanthology.org/2025.iwcs-main.7/) (Radaelli et al., IWCS 2025)

• Context Effects on the Interpretation of Complement Coercion: A Comparative Study with Language Models in Norwegian (Radaelli et al., IWCS 2025)

ACL

• Matteo Radaelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Alessandro Lenci, and Giosuè Baggio. 2025. Context Effects on the Interpretation of Complement Coercion: A Comparative Study with Language Models in Norwegian. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics, pages 78–88, Düsseldorf, Germany. Association for Computational Linguistics.