Diagnosing the First-Order Logical Reasoning Ability Through LogicNLI
Jidong Tian, Yitian Li, Wenqing Chen, Liqiang Xiao, Hao He, Yaohui Jin
Abstract
Recently, language models (LMs) have achieved significant performance on many NLU tasks, which has spurred widespread interest for their possible applications in the scientific and social area. However, LMs have faced much criticism of whether they are truly capable of reasoning in NLU. In this work, we propose a diagnostic method for first-order logic (FOL) reasoning with a new proposed benchmark, LogicNLI. LogicNLI is an NLI-style dataset that effectively disentangles the target FOL reasoning from commonsense inference and can be used to diagnose LMs from four perspectives: accuracy, robustness, generalization, and interpretability. Experiments on BERT, RoBERTa, and XLNet, have uncovered the weaknesses of these LMs on FOL reasoning, which motivates future exploration to enhance the reasoning ability.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{tian-etal-2021-diagnosing,
title = "Diagnosing the First-Order Logical Reasoning Ability Through {L}ogic{NLI}",
author = "Tian, Jidong and
Li, Yitian and
Chen, Wenqing and
Xiao, Liqiang and
He, Hao and
Jin, Yaohui",
editor = "Moens, Marie-Francine and
Huang, Xuanjing and
Specia, Lucia and
Yih, Scott Wen-tau",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = nov,
year = "2021",
address = "Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.303/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.303",
pages = "3738--3747"
}