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Transformer-based models achieve impressive performance on numerous Natural Language Inference (NLI) benchmarks when trained on respective training datasets. However, in certain cases, training samples may not be available or collecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Neeraj Varshney , Pratyay Banerjee , Tejas Gokhale , Chitta Baral

Negation is poorly captured by current language models, although the extent of this problem is not widely understood. We introduce a natural language inference (NLI) test suite to enable probing the capabilities of NLP methods, with the aim…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Thinh Hung Truong , Yulia Otmakhova , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn , Jey Han Lau , Karin Verspoor

The continuous growth of scientific literature brings innovations and, at the same time, raises new challenges. One of them is related to the fact that its analysis has become difficult due to the high volume of published papers for which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Danilo Dessì , Francesco Osborne , Diego Reforgiato Recupero , Davide Buscaldi , Enrico Motta

In the rapidly evolving field of Explainable Natural Language Processing (NLP), textual explanations, i.e., human-like rationales, are pivotal for explaining model predictions and enriching datasets with interpretable labels. Traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Mahdi Dhaini , Juraj Vladika , Ege Erdogan , Zineb Attaoui , Gjergji Kasneci

While many natural language inference (NLI) datasets target certain semantic phenomena, e.g., negation, tense & aspect, monotonicity, and presupposition, to the best of our knowledge, there is no NLI dataset that involves diverse types of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Lasha Abzianidze , Joost Zwarts , Yoad Winter

Scientific information expresses human understanding of nature. This knowledge is largely disseminated in different forms of text, including scientific papers, news articles, and discourse among people on social media. While important for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Dustin Wright

Querying knowledge bases using ontologies is usually performed using dedicated query languages, question-answering systems, or visual query editors for Knowledge Graphs. We propose a novel approach that enables users to query the knowledge…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Benedikt Kantz , Kevin Innerebner , Peter Waldert , Stefan Lengauer , Elisabeth Lex , Tobias Schreck

Accurate lexical entailment (LE) and natural language inference (NLI) often require large quantities of costly annotations. To alleviate the need for labeled data, we introduce WikiNLI: a resource for improving model performance on NLI and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Mingda Chen , Zewei Chu , Karl Stratos , Kevin Gimpel

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

To reduce human annotations for relation extraction (RE) tasks, distantly supervised approaches have been proposed, while struggling with low performance. In this work, we propose a novel DSRE-NLI framework, which considers both distant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Kang Zhou , Qiao Qiao , Yuepei Li , Qi Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved exceptional capabilities in open generation across various domains, yet they encounter difficulties with tasks that require intensive knowledge. To address these challenges, methods for integrating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Fali Wang , Runxue Bao , Suhang Wang , Wenchao Yu , Yanchi Liu , Wei Cheng , Haifeng Chen

We revisit the reference determinacy (RD) assumption in the task of natural language inference (NLI), i.e., the premise and hypothesis are assumed to refer to the same context when human raters annotate a label. While RD is a practical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Sihao Chen , Chaitanya Malaviya , Alex Fabrikant , Hagai Taitelbaum , Tal Schuster , Senaka Buthpitiya , Dan Roth

Large language models (LLMs) have greatly improved their capability in performing NLP tasks. However, deeper semantic understanding, contextual coherence, and more subtle reasoning are still difficult to obtain. The paper discusses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Mohanakrishnan Hariharan

Our research investigates how Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be used to extract main topics from a larger corpus of written data, as applied to the case of identifying signaling themes in Presidential Directives (PDs) from the Reagan…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 C. LeMay , A. Lane , J. Seales , M. Winstead , S. Baty

Information extraction from the scientific literature is one of the main techniques to transform unstructured knowledge hidden in the text into structured data which can then be used for decision-making in down-stream tasks. One such area…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Melanie McGrath , Harrison Bailey , Necva Bölücü , Xiang Dai , Sarvnaz Karimi , Cecile Paris

Many recent studies have shown that for models trained on datasets for natural language inference (NLI), it is possible to make correct predictions by merely looking at the hypothesis while completely ignoring the premise. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Tianyu Liu , Xin Zheng , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui

Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have ignited interest in developing effective methods for predicting protein-ligand interactions (PLIs) given their relevance to drug discovery and protein engineering efforts and the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-18 James Michels , Ramya Bandarupalli , Amin Ahangar Akbari , Thai Le , Hong Xiao , Jing Li , Erik F. Y. Hom

Natural Language Inference (NLI) focuses on ascertaining the logical relationship (entailment, contradiction, or neutral) between a given premise and hypothesis. This task presents significant challenges due to inherent linguistic features…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Min Li , Chun Yuan

The rapid development and application of natural language generation (NLG) techniques has revolutionized the field of automatic text production. However, these techniques are still limited in their ability to produce human-like text that is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Jiangjie Chen , Yanghua Xiao

While deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance on a range of NLP tasks, these data-hungry models heavily rely on labeled data, which restricts their applications in scenarios where data annotation is expensive. Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Ziqi Wang , Yujia Qin , Wenxuan Zhou , Jun Yan , Qinyuan Ye , Leonardo Neves , Zhiyuan Liu , Xiang Ren