Natural Language Inference
Natural Language Inference (NLI) focuses on determining the logical relationship between pairs of sentences, a crucial task for understanding and reasoning with natural language. Current research emphasizes improving NLI model robustness against adversarial attacks and misinformation, enhancing efficiency through techniques like layer pruning and domain adaptation, and developing more reliable evaluation methods that account for human judgment variability and address issues like hallucination in large language models. These advancements are significant for improving the accuracy and trustworthiness of various NLP applications, including question answering, text summarization, and fact verification, ultimately leading to more reliable and explainable AI systems.
Papers
Penguins Don't Fly: Reasoning about Generics through Instantiations and Exceptions
Emily Allaway, Jena D. Hwang, Chandra Bhagavatula, Kathleen McKeown, Doug Downey, Yejin Choi
A Question-Answer Driven Approach to Reveal Affirmative Interpretations from Verbal Negations
Md Mosharaf Hossain, Luke Holman, Anusha Kakileti, Tiffany Iris Kao, Nathan Raul Brito, Aaron Abraham Mathews, Eduardo Blanco
Logical Reasoning with Span-Level Predictions for Interpretable and Robust NLI Models
Joe Stacey, Pasquale Minervini, Haim Dubossarsky, Marek Rei