4 papers
Not all Negation Cues are Equal: Affixal Negations Yield Better Negation Understanding
Tian Tan, Eduardo Blanco
Negation remains a longstanding challenge for both language models (LMs) and large language models (LLMs). Prior work mainly focuses on a small set of high-frequency single-word ne…
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…
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…