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.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.acl-long.315
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Dublin, Ireland
- Editors:
- Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4602–4621
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.315
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.315
- Cite (ACL):
- Reto Gubelmann and Siegfried Handschuh. 2022. Context Matters: A Pragmatic Study of PLMs’ Negation Understanding. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 4602–4621, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Context Matters: A Pragmatic Study of PLMs’ Negation Understanding (Gubelmann & Handschuh, ACL 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-2/2022.acl-long.315.pdf
- Data
- GLUE, SuperGLUE