@inproceedings{radaelli-etal-2025-context,
    title = "Context Effects on the Interpretation of Complement Coercion: A Comparative Study with Language Models in {N}orwegian",
    author = "Radaelli, Matteo  and
      Chersoni, Emmanuele  and
      Lenci, Alessandro  and
      Baggio, Giosu{\`e}",
    editor = "Evang, Kilian  and
      Kallmeyer, Laura  and
      Pogodalla, Sylvain",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics",
    month = sep,
    year = "2025",
    address = {D{\"u}sseldorf, Germany},
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/name-variant-enfa-fane/2025.iwcs-main.7/",
    pages = "78--88",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-316-6",
    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."
}