Can Neural Networks Understand Monotonicity Reasoning?
Hitomi Yanaka, Koji Mineshima, Daisuke Bekki, Kentaro Inui, Satoshi Sekine, Lasha Abzianidze, Johan Bos
Abstract
Monotonicity reasoning is one of the important reasoning skills for any intelligent natural language inference (NLI) model in that it requires the ability to capture the interaction between lexical and syntactic structures. Since no test set has been developed for monotonicity reasoning with wide coverage, it is still unclear whether neural models can perform monotonicity reasoning in a proper way. To investigate this issue, we introduce the Monotonicity Entailment Dataset (MED). Performance by state-of-the-art NLI models on the new test set is substantially worse, under 55%, especially on downward reasoning. In addition, analysis using a monotonicity-driven data augmentation method showed that these models might be limited in their generalization ability in upward and downward reasoning.- Anthology ID:
- W19-4804
- Original:
- W19-4804v1
- Version 2:
- W19-4804v2
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2019 ACL Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Florence, Italy
- Editors:
- Tal Linzen, Grzegorz Chrupała, Yonatan Belinkov, Dieuwke Hupkes
- Venue:
- BlackboxNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 31–40
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W19-4804
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W19-4804
- Cite (ACL):
- Hitomi Yanaka, Koji Mineshima, Daisuke Bekki, Kentaro Inui, Satoshi Sekine, Lasha Abzianidze, and Johan Bos. 2019. Can Neural Networks Understand Monotonicity Reasoning?. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACL Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, pages 31–40, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Can Neural Networks Understand Monotonicity Reasoning? (Yanaka et al., BlackboxNLP 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-2/W19-4804.pdf
- Code
- verypluming/MED
- Data
- MED, GLUE, HELP, MultiNLI, SNLI