Abstract
Natural language processing (NLP) modelshave achieved remarkable progress in recentyears, particularly in tasks related to semanticanalysis. However, many existing benchmarksprimarily focus on lexical and syntactic un-derstanding, often overlooking the importanceof numerical reasoning abilities. In this pa-per, we argue for the necessity of incorporatingnumeral-awareness into NLP evaluations andpropose two distinct tasks to assess this capabil-ity: Numerical Reasoning and Headline Gener-ation. We present datasets curated for each taskand evaluate various approaches using both au-tomatic and human evaluation metrics. Ourresults demonstrate the diverse strategies em-ployed by participating teams and highlight thepromising performance of emerging modelslike Mixtral 8x7b instruct. We discuss the im-plications of our findings and suggest avenuesfor future research in advancing numeral-awarelanguage understanding and generation.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.semeval-1.131
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Editors:
- Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Giovanni Da San Martino, Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá
- Venue:
- SemEval
- SIG:
- SIGLEX
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 913–917
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.semeval-1.131
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Sankalp Bahad, Yash Bhaskar, and Parameswari Krishnamurthy. 2024. Noot Noot at SemEval-2024 Task 7: Numerical Reasoning and Headline Generation. In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024), pages 913–917, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Noot Noot at SemEval-2024 Task 7: Numerical Reasoning and Headline Generation (Bahad et al., SemEval 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/jeptaln-2024-ingestion/2024.semeval-1.131.pdf