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There is increasing evidence of Human Label Variation (HLV) in Natural Language Inference (NLI), where annotators assign different labels to the same premise-hypothesis pair. However, within-label variation--cases where annotators agree on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Pingjun Hong , Beiduo Chen , Siyao Peng , Marie-Catherine de Marneffe , Barbara Plank

Current Natural Language Inference (NLI) models achieve impressive results, sometimes outperforming humans when evaluating on in-distribution test sets. However, as these models are known to learn from annotation artefacts and dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Joe Stacey , Pasquale Minervini , Haim Dubossarsky , Marek Rei

Many natural language processing (NLP) tasks involve reasoning with textual spans, including question answering, entity recognition, and coreference resolution. While extensive research has focused on functional architectures for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Shubham Toshniwal , Haoyue Shi , Bowen Shi , Lingyu Gao , Karen Livescu , Kevin Gimpel

Natural language inference (NLI) is a fundamental NLP task, investigating the entailment relationship between two texts. Popular NLI datasets present the task at sentence-level. While adequate for testing semantic representations, they fall…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Hanmeng Liu , Leyang Cui , Jian Liu , Yue Zhang

Natural language processing covers a wide variety of tasks predicting syntax, semantics, and information content, and usually each type of output is generated with specially designed architectures. In this paper, we provide the simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Zhengbao Jiang , Wei Xu , Jun Araki , Graham Neubig

Explaining the decision-making process of machine learning models is crucial for ensuring their reliability and transparency for end users. One popular explanation form highlights key input features, such as i) tokens (e.g., Shapley Values…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jingyi Sun , Pepa Atanasova , Isabelle Augenstein

Natural Language Inference (NLI) datasets often exhibit human label variation. To better understand these variations, explanation-based approaches analyze the underlying reasoning behind annotators' decisions. One such approach is the LiTEx…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Pingjun Hong , Beiduo Chen , Siyao Peng , Marie-Catherine de Marneffe , Benjamin Roth , Barbara Plank

Predicting emotions expressed in text is a well-studied problem in the NLP community. Recently there has been active research in extracting the cause of an emotion expressed in text. Most of the previous work has done causal emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Ashwani Bhat , Ashutosh Modi

Post-hoc explanation methods are an important tool for increasing model transparency for users. Unfortunately, the currently used methods for attributing token importance often yield diverging patterns. In this work, we study potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Jonathan Kamp , Lisa Beinborn , Antske Fokkens

Nature language inference (NLI) task is a predictive task of determining the inference relationship of a pair of natural language sentences. With the increasing popularity of NLI, many state-of-the-art predictive models have been proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Haohan Wang , Da Sun , Eric P. Xing

The task of Natural Language Inference (NLI) is widely modeled as supervised sentence pair classification. While there has been a lot of work recently on generating explanations of the predictions of classifiers on a single piece of text,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-25 James Thorne , Andreas Vlachos , Christos Christodoulopoulos , Arpit Mittal

In the recent past, a popular way of evaluating natural language understanding (NLU), was to consider a model's ability to perform natural language inference (NLI) tasks. In this paper, we investigate if NLI tasks, that are rarely used for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Lovish Madaan , David Esiobu , Pontus Stenetorp , Barbara Plank , Dieuwke Hupkes

XAI with natural language processing aims to produce human-readable explanations as evidence for AI decision-making, which addresses explainability and transparency. However, from an HCI perspective, the current approaches only focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Jialin Yu , Alexandra I. Cristea , Anoushka Harit , Zhongtian Sun , Olanrewaju Tahir Aduragba , Lei Shi , Noura Al Moubayed

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

Identifying relevant text spans is important for several downstream tasks in NLP, as it contributes to model explainability. While most span identification approaches rely on relatively smaller pre-trained language models like BERT, a few…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Alphaeus Dmonte , Roland Oruche , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Marcos Zampieri , Prasad Calyam

Generative large language models (LLMs) excel in natural language processing tasks, yet their inner workings remain underexplored beyond token-level predictions. This study investigates the degree to which these models decide the content of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Nicholas Pochinkov , Angelo Benoit , Lovkush Agarwal , Zainab Ali Majid , Lucile Ter-Minassian

We present an empirical study on methods for span finding, the selection of consecutive tokens in text for some downstream tasks. We focus on approaches that can be employed in training end-to-end information extraction systems, and find…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Weiwei Gu , Boyuan Zheng , Yunmo Chen , Tongfei Chen , Benjamin Van Durme

This position paper argues that annotation disagreement in Natural Language Inference (NLI) is not mere noise but often reflects meaningful variation, especially when triggered by ambiguity in the premise or hypothesis. While underspecified…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Chathuri Jayaweera , Bonnie J. Dorr

Generating explanations for neural networks has become crucial for their applications in real-world with respect to reliability and trustworthiness. In natural language processing, existing methods usually provide important features which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Hanjie Chen , Guangtao Zheng , Yangfeng Ji

Natural language explanations (NLEs) are a special form of data annotation in which annotators identify rationales (most significant text tokens) when assigning labels to data instances, and write out explanations for the labels in natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Xinyan Zhao , V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran
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