Natural Language Decompositions of Implicit Content Enable Better Text Representations (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | a new method for the analysis of text takes implicitly communicated content into account . authors: human interpretation of each individual utterance is intractable . |
| Approach: | They propose a method that takes explicit communication into account when people interpret text . they use a large language model to generate propositions that are inferentially related to the text analyzed . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method proves useful in multiple problems that involve interpretation of utterances . it uncovers high-level narratives in public commentary, which are often not expressed in surface forms . |
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