Clarifying Completions: Evaluating How LLMs Respond to Incomplete Questions (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | iCRs are a complex phenomenon with different forms, readings and functions and can occur on different levels of communication on Clark's 'Clark's' . they are often multi-modal and can be generated on different level of communication. |
| Approach: | They collect, release and analyse a corpus of 3000 human produced iCRs and use them to probe the incremental processing capability of state of the art LLMs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can generate contextually appropriate iCRs at larger LLM sizes and only when prompted with examples from the corpus. |
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