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DiscoTrack: A Multilingual LLM Benchmark for Discourse Tracking

Computation and Language 2025-11-11 v3

Abstract

Recent LLM benchmarks have tested models on a range of phenomena, but are still focused primarily on natural language understanding for extraction of explicit information, such as QA or summarization, with responses often targeting information from individual sentences. We are still lacking more challenging, and importantly also multilingual, benchmarks focusing on implicit information and pragmatic inferences across larger documents in the context of discourse tracking: integrating and aggregating information across sentences, paragraphs and multiple speaker utterances. To this end, we present DiscoTrack, an LLM benchmark targeting a range of tasks across 12 languages and four levels of discourse understanding: salience recognition, entity tracking, discourse relations and bridging inference. Our evaluation shows that these tasks remain challenging, even for state-of-the-art models.

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@article{arxiv.2510.17013,
  title  = {DiscoTrack: A Multilingual LLM Benchmark for Discourse Tracking},
  author = {Lanni Bu and Lauren Levine and Amir Zeldes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.17013},
  year   = {2025}
}
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