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Commonsense Knowledge with Negation: A Resource to Enhance Negation Understanding
Zijie Wang, MohammadHossein Rezaei, Farzana Rashid +1
Negation is a common and important semantic feature in natural language, yet Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle when negation is involved in natural language understanding tasks…
Online Rubrics Elicitation from Pairwise Comparisons
MohammadHossein Rezaei, Robert Vacareanu, Zihao Wang +4
Rubrics provide a flexible way to train LLMs on open-ended long-form answers where verifiable rewards are not applicable and human preferences provide coarse signals. Prior work sh…
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…
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…
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…