Are Natural Language Inference Models IMPPRESsive? Learning IMPlicature and PRESupposition (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Natural language inference (NLI) is an increasingly important task for natural language understanding . however, the ability of NLI models to make pragmatic inferences remains understudied . |
| Approach: | They use semi-automatically generated sentence pairs to evaluate whether NLI models make pragmatic inferences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model trains on multiNLI and shows that it learns to draw pragmatic inferences. |
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