Time Tells: Temporal Event Ordering in Frontier LLMs — Performance, Limitations, and Human Comparison

Feifei Sun; Ziyi Tong; Teeradaj Racharak; Minh Le Nguyen

Time Tells: Temporal Event Ordering in Frontier LLMs — Performance, Limitations, and Human Comparison

Feifei Sun, Ziyi Tong, Teeradaj Racharak, Minh Le Nguyen

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Volume:: Proceedings of the 39th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
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Year:: 2025
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Editors:: Chu-Ren Huang, Yasunari Harada, Jong-Bok Kim, Nguyen T.M. Huyen, Le Thanh Huong, Pham Hien, Emmanuele Chersoni, Le Minh Nguyen, Rachel Edita Oñate Roxas, Sherly Dita
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%A Racharak, Teeradaj
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%Y Hien, Pham
%Y Chersoni, Emmanuele
%Y Nguyen, Le Minh
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[Time Tells: Temporal Event Ordering in Frontier LLMs — Performance, Limitations, and Human Comparison](https://aclanthology.org/2025.paclic-1.50/) (Sun et al., PACLIC 2025)

Time Tells: Temporal Event Ordering in Frontier LLMs — Performance, Limitations, and Human Comparison (Sun et al., PACLIC 2025)

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Feifei Sun, Ziyi Tong, Teeradaj Racharak, and Minh Le Nguyen. 2025. Time Tells: Temporal Event Ordering in Frontier LLMs — Performance, Limitations, and Human Comparison. In Proceedings of the 39th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, pages 544–555, Hanoi, Vietnam. Association for Computational Linguistics.