3 papers
cs.CL2025
Making Language Models Robust Against Negation
MohammadHossein Rezaei, Eduardo Blanco
Negation has been a long-standing challenge for language models. Previous studies have shown that they struggle with negation in many natural language understanding tasks. In this…
cs.CL2024
Paraphrasing in Affirmative Terms Improves Negation Understanding
MohammadHossein Rezaei, Eduardo Blanco
Negation is a common linguistic phenomenon. Yet language models face challenges with negation in many natural language understanding tasks such as question answering and natural la…
cs.CL2023
Interpreting Indirect Answers to Yes-No Questions in Multiple Languages
Zijie Wang, Md Mosharaf Hossain, Shivam Mathur +8
Yes-no questions expect a yes or no for an answer, but people often skip polar keywords. Instead, they answer with long explanations that must be interpreted. In this paper, we foc…