IMPLI: Investigating NLI Models’ Performance on Figurative Language (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Understanding figurative language is a difficult area in NLP but is essential for proper understanding. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a dataset to generate 24k semiautomatic pairs and manually create 1.8k gold pairs to evaluate NLI models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models can detect entailment relationship between figurative phrases and their literal counterparts, but perform poorly on similar structured examples. |
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