Context Matters: A Pragmatic Study of PLMs’ Negation Understanding
Journal
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2022-05-15
Author(s)
Abstract
In linguistics, there are two main perspectives on negation: a semantic and a pragmatic view. So far, research in NLP on negation has almost exclusively adhered to the semantic view. In this article, we adopt the pragmatic paradigm to conduct a study of negation understanding focusing on transformer-based PLMs. Our results differ from previous, semantics-based studies and therefore help to contribute a more comprehensive – and, given the results, much more optimistic – picture of the PLMs’ negation understanding.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Association for Computational Linguistics
Publisher place
Dublin, Ireland
Volume
1
Start page
4602
End page
4621
Pages
20
Official URL
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
266489
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2022.acl-long.315.pdf
Size
5.75 MB
Format
Adobe PDF
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