Context Matters: A Pragmatic Study of PLMs’ Negation Understanding

Reto Gubelmann; Siegfried Handschuh

ACL 2022long23 citations

Context Matters: A Pragmatic Study of PLMs’ Negation Understanding

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.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{gubelmann-handschuh-2022-context,
    title = "Context Matters: A Pragmatic Study of {PLM}s' Negation Understanding",
    author = "Gubelmann, Reto  and
      Handschuh, Siegfried",
    editor = "Muresan, Smaranda  and
      Nakov, Preslav  and
      Villavicencio, Aline",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = may,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Dublin, Ireland",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.315/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.315",
    pages = "4602--4621"
}