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Natural Language Inference (NLI) is a cornerstone of Natural Language Processing (NLP), providing insights into the entailment relationships between text pairings. It is a critical component of Natural Language Understanding (NLU),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Fatema Tuj Johora Faria , Mukaffi Bin Moin , Asif Iftekher Fahim , Pronay Debnath , Faisal Muhammad Shah

Sentence embedding methods using natural language inference (NLI) datasets have been successfully applied to various tasks. However, these methods are only available for limited languages due to relying heavily on the large NLI datasets. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Hayato Tsukagoshi , Ryohei Sasano , Koichi Takeda

State of the art models using deep neural networks have become very good in learning an accurate mapping from inputs to outputs. However, they still lack generalization capabilities in conditions that differ from the ones encountered during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Alexey Romanov , Chaitanya Shivade

Despite the success of language models using neural networks, it remains unclear to what extent neural models have the generalization ability to perform inferences. In this paper, we introduce a method for evaluating whether neural models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Hitomi Yanaka , Koji Mineshima , Daisuke Bekki , Kentaro Inui

Recent years have seen the rise of large language models (LLMs), where practitioners use task-specific prompts; this was shown to be effective for a variety of tasks. However, when applied to semantic textual similarity (STS) and natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Yuxia Wang , Minghan Wang , Preslav Nakov

For both human readers and pre-trained language models (PrLMs), lexical diversity may lead to confusion and inaccuracy when understanding the underlying semantic meanings of given sentences. By substituting complex words with simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Rongzhou Bao , Jiayi Wang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

In the summarization domain, a key requirement for summaries is to be factually consistent with the input document. Previous work has found that natural language inference (NLI) models do not perform competitively when applied to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Philippe Laban , Tobias Schnabel , Paul N. Bennett , Marti A. Hearst

Natural Language Inference (NLI) is fundamental to many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications including semantic search and question answering. The NLI problem has gained significant attention thanks to the release of large scale,…

Natural Language Inference (NLI) is the task of determining whether a premise entails, contradicts, or is neutral with respect to a given hypothesis. The task is often framed as emulating human inferential processes, in which commonsense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chathuri Jayaweera , Brianna Yanqui , Bonnie Dorr

Despite the growing progress in Natural Language Inference (NLI) research, resources for the Bengali language remain extremely limited. Existing Bengali NLI datasets exhibit several inconsistencies, including annotation errors, ambiguous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Farah Binta Haque , Md Yasin , Shishir Saha , Md Shoaib Akhter Rafi , Farig Sadeque

While discriminative neural network classifiers are generally preferred, recent work has shown advantages of generative classifiers in term of data efficiency and robustness. In this paper, we focus on natural language inference (NLI). We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Xiaoan Ding , Tianyu Liu , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui , Kevin Gimpel

Large-scale datasets for natural language inference are created by presenting crowd workers with a sentence (premise), and asking them to generate three new sentences (hypotheses) that it entails, contradicts, or is logically neutral with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Suchin Gururangan , Swabha Swayamdipta , Omer Levy , Roy Schwartz , Samuel R. Bowman , Noah A. Smith

This paper introduces the Multi-Genre Natural Language Inference (MultiNLI) corpus, a dataset designed for use in the development and evaluation of machine learning models for sentence understanding. In addition to being one of the largest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Adina Williams , Nikita Nangia , Samuel R. Bowman

Natural Language Inference (NLI) models have been used in various ways to improve the factuality of LLM outputs. This is typically done by applying an NLI model to judge whether the model output is entailed from the supposed evidence,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Sapir Harary , Eran Hirsch , Aviv Slobodkin , David Wan , Mohit Bansal , Ido Dagan

Interpreting the performance of deep learning models beyond test set accuracy is challenging. Characteristics of individual data points are often not considered during evaluation, and each data point is treated equally. We examine the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 John P. Lalor , Hao Wu , Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Hong Yu

Measurement of social bias in language models is typically by token probability (TP) metrics, which are broadly applicable but have been criticized for their distance from real-world language model use cases and harms. In this work, we test…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Virginia K. Felkner , Allison Lim , Jonathan May

We present a large-scale collection of diverse natural language inference (NLI) datasets that help provide insight into how well a sentence representation captures distinct types of reasoning. The collection results from recasting 13…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Adam Poliak , Aparajita Haldar , Rachel Rudinger , J. Edward Hu , Ellie Pavlick , Aaron Steven White , Benjamin Van Durme

In this paper we present a technique of NLP to tackle the problem of inference relation (NLI) between pairs of sentences in a target language of choice without a language-specific training dataset. We exploit a generic translation dataset,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Lorenzo Corradi , Alessandro Manenti , Francesca Del Bonifro , Francesco Setti , Dario Del Sorbo

Reliable evaluation protocols are of utmost importance for reproducible NLP research. In this work, we show that sometimes neither metric nor conventional human evaluation is sufficient to draw conclusions about system performance. Using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Yevgeniy Puzikov

While LLMs have revolutionized the field of machine learning due to their high performance on a strikingly wide range of problems, they are also known to hallucinate false answers and underperform on less canonical versions of the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Kavi Gupta , Kate Sanders , Armando Solar-Lezama