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This paper describes our system for Task 4 of SemEval-2021: Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning (ReCAM). We participated in all subtasks where the main goal was to predict an abstract word missing from a statement. We fine-tuned the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Abhishek Mittal , Ashutosh Modi

This paper introduces the SemEval-2021 shared task 4: Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning (ReCAM). This shared task is designed to help evaluate the ability of machines in representing and understanding abstract concepts. Given a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Boyuan Zheng , Xiaoyu Yang , Yu-Ping Ruan , Zhenhua Ling , Quan Liu , Si Wei , Xiaodan Zhu

In this article, we present our methodologies for SemEval-2021 Task-4: Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning. Given a fill-in-the-blank-type question and a corresponding context, the task is to predict the most suitable word from a list…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Abheesht Sharma , Harshit Pandey , Gunjan Chhablani , Yash Bhartia , Tirtharaj Dash

This paper presents our systems for the three Subtasks of SemEval Task4: Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning (ReCAM). We explain the algorithms used to learn our models and the process of tuning the algorithms and selecting the best…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Xin Xie , Xiangnan Chen , Xiang Chen , Yong Wang , Ningyu Zhang , Shumin Deng , Huajun Chen

This paper presents a technical report of our submission to the 4th task of SemEval-2021, titled: Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning. In this task, we want to predict the correct answer based on a question given a context. Usually,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Hossein Basafa , Sajad Movahedi , Ali Ebrahimi , Azadeh Shakery , Heshaam Faili

Large language models (LLMs) show amazing proficiency and fluency in the use of language. Does this mean that they have also acquired insightful linguistic knowledge about the language, to an extent that they can serve as an "expert…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Allyson Ettinger , Jena D. Hwang , Valentina Pyatkin , Chandra Bhagavatula , Yejin Choi

Recent claims suggest that large language models (LMs) underperform humans in comprehending minimally complex English statements (Dentella et al., 2024). Here, we revisit those findings and argue that human performance was overestimated,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Adele E Goldberg , Supantho Rakshit , Jennifer Hu , Kyle Mahowald

Large language models (LLMs) excel in tasks requiring processing and interpretation of input text. Abstract screening is a labour-intensive component of systematic review involving repetitive application of inclusion and exclusion criteria…

The emergence of Small Language Models (SLMs) as privacy-preserving alternatives for sensitive applications raises a fundamental question about their inherent understanding capabilities compared to Large Language Models (LLMs). This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Hong Jia , Shiya Fu , Feng Xia , Vassilis Kostakos , Ting Dang

Evaluating reasoning ability in Large Language Models (LLMs) is important for advancing artificial intelligence, as it transcends mere linguistic task performance. It involves understanding whether these models truly understand information,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Benjamin Grando Moreira

This paper introduces our systems for all three subtasks of SemEval-2021 Task 4: Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning. To help our model better represent and understand abstract concepts in natural language, we well-design many simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yuqiang Xie , Luxi Xing , Wei Peng , Yue Hu

Large language models (LLMs) offer unprecedented text completion capabilities. As general models, they can fulfill a wide range of roles, including those of more specialized models. We assess the performance of GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 in zero…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Paul F. Simmering , Paavo Huoviala

Reading comprehension is a key for individual success, yet the assessment of question difficulty remains challenging due to the extensive human annotation and large-scale testing required by traditional methods such as linguistic analysis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Yoshee Jain , John Hollander , Amber He , Sunny Tang , Liang Zhang , John Sabatini

Final-answer-based metrics are commonly used for evaluating large language models (LLMs) on math word problems, often taken as proxies for reasoning ability. However, such metrics conflate two distinct sub-skills: abstract formulation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Ziling Cheng , Meng Cao , Leila Pishdad , Yanshuai Cao , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Although large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capacity to leverage in-context demonstrations, it is still unclear to what extent they can learn new concepts or facts from ground-truth labels. To address this question, we examine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Marcio Fonseca , Shay B. Cohen

Recent work has argued that large language models (LLMs) are not "abstract reasoners", citing their poor zero-shot performance on a variety of challenging tasks as evidence. We revisit these experiments in order to add nuance to the claim.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Tian Yun , Chen Sun , Ellie Pavlick

Understanding how news narratives frame entities is crucial for studying media's impact on societal perceptions of events. In this paper, we evaluate the zero-shot capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in classifying framing roles.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Enfa Fane , Mihai Surdeanu , Eduardo Blanco , Steven R. Corman

Subjective language understanding refers to a broad set of natural language processing tasks where the goal is to interpret or generate content that conveys personal feelings, opinions, or figurative meanings rather than objective facts.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Changhao Song , Yazhou Zhang , Hui Gao , Ben Yao , Peng Zhang

This paper presents our submitted system to SemEval 2021 Task 4: Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning. Our system uses a large pre-trained language model as the encoder and an additional dual multi-head co-attention layer to strengthen…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Yuxin Jiang , Ziyi Shou , Qijun Wang , Hao Wu , Fangzhen Lin

The rise of large language models (LLMs) is revolutionizing information retrieval, question answering, summarization, and code generation tasks. However, in addition to confidently presenting factually inaccurate information at times (known…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Henry Gilbert , Michael Sandborn , Douglas C. Schmidt , Jesse Spencer-Smith , Jules White
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