Kellen Cheng

No Context Needed: Contextual Quandary In Idiomatic Reasoning With Pre-Trained Language Models

Reasoning in the presence of idiomatic expressions (IEs) remains a challenging frontier in natural language understanding (NLU). Unlike standard text, the non-compositional nature of an IE makes it difficult for model comprehension, as their figurative or non-literal mean- ing usually cannot be infe…