3 papers
cs.CL2026
As Easy as Rocket Science: Assessing the Ability of Large Language Models to Interpret Negation in Figurative Language
Jasmine Owers, Edwin Simpson, Martha Lewis
Figurative language and negation are two areas that challenge current language models, however, both are widely used throughout written and spoken language. Large language models (…
cs.CL2026
Efficient Financial Language Understanding via Distillation with Synthetic Data
Wen-Fong, Huang, Edwin Simpson
Large instruction-following models are powerful but costly to deploy, particularly in finance, where labelled data are limited by confidentiality and expert annotation cost. We pre…
cs.CL2025
How well can LLMs Grade Essays in Arabic?
Rayed Ghazawi, Edwin Simpson
This research assesses the effectiveness of state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs), including ChatGPT, Llama, Aya, Jais, and ACEGPT, in the task of Arabic automated essay sc…