2 papers
cs.CL2026
Presupposition and Reasoning in Conditionals: A Theory-Based Study of Humans and LLMs
Tara Azin, Yongan Yu, Raj Singh +1
Presupposition projection in conditionals is central to theories of meaning and pragmatics, yet it remains largely unevaluated in large language models. We address this gap through…
cs.CL2026
Do Language Models Know Theo Has a Wife? Investigating the Proviso Problem
Tara Azin, Daniel Dumitrescu, Diana Inkpen +1
We investigate how language models handle the proviso problem, an unresolved issue in pragmatics where presuppositions in conditional sentences diverge between theoretical and huma…