Ashwini Deo

Is It JUST Semantics? A Case Study of Discourse Particle Understanding in LLMs

Discourse particles are crucial elements that subtly shape the meaning of text. These words, often polyfunctional, give rise to nuanced and often quite disparate semantic/discourse effects,as exemplified by the diverse uses of the particle *just* (e.g., exclusive, temporal, emphatic). This work inve…