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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

Recent research efforts have explored the potential of leveraging natural language inference (NLI) techniques to enhance relation extraction (RE). In this vein, we introduce MetaEntailRE, a novel adaptation method that harnesses NLI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 William Hogan , Jingbo Shang

Detecting semantic arguments of a predicate word has been conventionally modeled as a sentence-level task. The typical reader, however, perfectly interprets predicate-argument relations in a much wider context than just the sentence where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Paul Roit , Aviv Slobodkin , Eran Hirsch , Arie Cattan , Ayal Klein , Valentina Pyatkin , Ido Dagan

LLMs are often claimed to be capable of Natural Language Inference (NLI), which is widely regarded as a cornerstone of more complex forms of reasoning. However, recent works show that LLMs still suffer from hallucinations in NLI due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Liang Cheng , Tianyi Li , Zhaowei Wang , Tianyang Liu , Mark Steedman

An increasing amount of research in Natural Language Inference (NLI) focuses on the application and evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their reasoning capabilities. Despite their success, however, LLMs are still prone to factual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Xin Quan , Marco Valentino , Louise A. Dennis , André Freitas

Popular Natural Language Inference (NLI) datasets have been shown to be tainted by hypothesis-only biases. Adversarial learning may help models ignore sensitive biases and spurious correlations in data. We evaluate whether adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Yonatan Belinkov , Adam Poliak , Stuart M. Shieber , Benjamin Van Durme , Alexander M. Rush

Natural Language Inference (NLI) has been a cornerstone task in evaluating language models' inferential reasoning capabilities. However, the standard three-way classification scheme used in NLI has well-known shortcomings in evaluating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Animesh Nighojkar , Antonio Laverghetta , John Licato

Semantic representation and inference is essential for Natural Language Processing (NLP). The state of the art for semantic representation and inference is deep learning, and particularly Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), Convolutional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Dongsheng Wang

Natural Language Inference is a challenging task that has received substantial attention, and state-of-the-art models now achieve impressive test set performance in the form of accuracy scores. Here, we go beyond this single evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Vicente Ivan Sanchez Carmona , Jeff Mitchell , Sebastian Riedel

Natural Language Inference (NLI) relies heavily on adequately parsing the semantic content of the premise and hypothesis. In this work, we investigate whether adding semantic information in the form of an Abstract Meaning Representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Junghyun Min , Xiulin Yang , Shira Wein

Inference in natural language often involves recognizing lexical entailment (RLE); that is, identifying whether one word entails another. For example, "buy" entails "own". Two general strategies for RLE have been proposed: One strategy is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Peter D. Turney , Saif M. Mohammad

Consistency is a long standing issue faced by dialogue models. In this paper, we frame the consistency of dialogue agents as natural language inference (NLI) and create a new natural language inference dataset called Dialogue NLI. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Sean Welleck , Jason Weston , Arthur Szlam , Kyunghyun Cho

While recent research on natural language inference has considerably benefited from large annotated datasets, the amount of inference-related knowledge (including commonsense) provided in the annotated data is still rather limited. There…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Xiaoyu Yang , Xiaodan Zhu , Zhan Shi , Tianda Li

Despite the recent success of deep neural networks in natural language processing, the extent to which they can demonstrate human-like generalization capacities for natural language understanding remains unclear. We explore this issue in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Hitomi Yanaka , Koji Mineshima , Kentaro Inui

Abduction has long been seen as crucial for narrative comprehension and reasoning about everyday situations. The abductive natural language inference ($\alpha$NLI) task has been proposed, and this narrative text-based task aims to infer the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Chunkit Chan , Xin Liu , Tsz Ho Chan , Jiayang Cheng , Yangqiu Song , Ginny Wong , Simon See

This work introduces a natural language inference (NLI) dataset that focuses on the validity of statements in legal wills. This dataset is unique because: (a) each entailment decision requires three inputs: the statement from the will, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Alice Saebom Kwak , Jacob O. Israelsen , Clayton T. Morrison , Derek E. Bambauer , Mihai Surdeanu

The aim of this article is to investigate the fine-tuning potential of natural language inference (NLI) data to improve information retrieval and ranking. We demonstrate this for both English and Polish languages, using data from one of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Roman Dušek , Aleksander Wawer , Christopher Galias , Lidia Wojciechowska

Abductive Reasoning is a task of inferring the most plausible hypothesis given a set of observations. In literature, the community has approached to solve this challenge by classifying/generating a likely hypothesis that does not contradict…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Seungone Kim

We propose a simple neural architecture for natural language inference. Our approach uses attention to decompose the problem into subproblems that can be solved separately, thus making it trivially parallelizable. On the Stanford Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Ankur P. Parikh , Oscar Täckström , Dipanjan Das , Jakob Uszkoreit

Recognizing implicit discourse relations is a challenging but important task in the field of Natural Language Processing. For such a complex text processing task, different from previous studies, we argue that it is necessary to repeatedly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Yang Liu , Sujian Li