On the Relationship between Sentence Analogy Identification and Sentence Structure Encoding in Large Language Models (2024.findings-eacl)
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Thilini Wijesiriwardene, Ruwan Wickramarachchi, Aishwarya Naresh Reganti, Vinija Jain, Aman Chadha, Amit Sheth, Amitava Das
| Challenge: | Analogies facilitate the transfer of meaning and knowledge from one domain to another. |
| Approach: | They propose to use large language models to encode syntactic and semantic structures of sentences to identify sentence analogies. |
| Outcome: | The LLMs which capture syntactic structures better, also have higher abilities in identifying sentence analogies. |
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