John Blackmore
2025
Can LLMs Disambiguate Grounded Language? The Case of PP Attachment
John Blackmore
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Matthew Stone
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - Natural Language Processing in the Generative AI Era
We explore the potential of large language models in resolving ambiguity in prepositional phrase attachments in grounded language. We find that when prompted in such a way that we can compute a probability of the respective attachment, models yield promising results. However, additional inputs from a measure of information structure may help improve prediction accuracy. We also investigate where we need more sophisticated tools, commonsense reasoning, world knowledge, and additional context to resolve ambiguity.