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Temporal relation classification is the task of determining the temporal relation between pairs of temporal entities in a text. Despite recent advancements in natural language processing, temporal relation classification remains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hugo Sousa , Ricardo Campos , Alípio Jorge

This paper introduces the TempVS benchmark, which focuses on temporal grounding and reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in image sequences. TempVS consists of three main tests (i.e., event relation inference,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yingjin Song , Yupei Du , Denis Paperno , Albert Gatt

Though languages can evolve slowly, they can also react strongly to dramatic world events. By studying the connection between words and events, it is possible to identify which events change our vocabulary and in what way. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Guy D. Rosin , Kira Radinsky

Much of human communication depends on implication, conveying meaning beyond literal words to express a wider range of thoughts, intentions, and feelings. For models to better understand and facilitate human communication, they must be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Shreya Havaldar , Hamidreza Alvari , John Palowitch , Mohammad Javad Hosseini , Senaka Buthpitiya , Alex Fabrikant

Large language models (LLMs) have recently gained significant attention due to their unparalleled ability to perform various natural language processing tasks. These models, benefiting from their advanced natural language understanding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jonas Wallat , Adam Jatowt , Avishek Anand

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

We consider the problem of learning temporal logic formulas from examples of system behavior. Learning temporal properties has crystallized as an effective mean to explain complex temporal behaviors. Several efficient algorithms have been…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Benjamin Bordais , Daniel Neider , Rajarshi Roy

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized video-based computer vision applications, including action recognition, anomaly detection, and video summarization. Videos inherently pose unique challenges, combining spatial complexity with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xi Ding , Lei Wang

Temporal conceptual data modelling, as an extension to regular conceptual data modelling languages such as EER and UML class diagrams, has received intermittent attention across the decades. It is receiving renewed interest in the context…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Sonia Berman , C. Maria Keet , Tamindran Shunmugam

This study addresses the challenges of analyzing temporal discrepancies in large language models (LLMs) trained on data from different time periods. To facilitate the automatic exploration of these differences, we propose a novel system…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Reinhard Friedrich Fritsch , Adam Jatowt

Natural Language Inference (NLI) is the task of determining whether a sentence pair represents entailment, contradiction, or a neutral relationship. While NLI models perform well on many inference tasks, their ability to handle fine-grained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Tara Azin , Daniel Dumitrescu , Diana Inkpen , Raj Singh

Natural language inference (NLI) requires models to learn and apply commonsense knowledge. These reasoning abilities are particularly important for explainable NLI systems that generate a natural language explanation in addition to their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Hendrik Schuff , Hsiu-Yu Yang , Heike Adel , Ngoc Thang Vu

Natural language contexts display logical regularities with respect to substitutions of related concepts: these are captured in a functional order-theoretic property called monotonicity. For a certain class of NLI problems where the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Julia Rozanova , Deborah Ferreira , Mokanarangan Thayaparan , Marco Valentino , André Freitas

A class of interval-based temporal languages for uniformly representing and reasoning about actions and plans is presented. Actions are represented by describing what is true while the action itself is occurring, and plans are constructed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-30 A. Artale , E. Franconi

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) are important tools for reasoning and problem-solving, while they often operate passively, answering questions without actively discovering new ones. This limitation reduces their ability to simulate human-like…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Hong Su

Language models (LMs) may appear insensitive to word order changes in natural language understanding (NLU) tasks. In this paper, we propose that linguistic redundancy can explain this phenomenon, whereby word order and other linguistic cues…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Xuanda Chen , Timothy O'Donnell , Siva Reddy

Meaning of words constantly changes given the events in modern civilization. Large Language Models use word embeddings, which are often static and thus cannot cope with this semantic change. Thus,it is important to resolve ambiguity in word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Mihir Godbole , Parth Dandavate , Aditya Kane

Confusion and disagreement around the notion of time is due to the fact that we often fail to recognize that we call 'time' a variety of distinct notions, only partially related to one another. Many apparently obvious properties of time are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-18 Carlo Rovelli

Natural Language Inference (NLI) evaluation is crucial for assessing language understanding models; however, popular datasets suffer from systematic spurious correlations that artificially inflate actual model performance. To address this,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Adrian Cosma , Stefan Ruseti , Mihai Dascalu , Cornelia Caragea