Who Relies More on World Knowledge and Bias for Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution: Humans or LLMs? (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Among various types of ambiguity, this study focuses on syntactic ambiguities, specifically relative 1 Dataset available at https://github.com/PortNLP/ MultiWHO. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a dataset to fine-grained evaluate relative clause attachment preferences in ambiguous and unambiguous contexts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset shows that large language models perform well in unambiguous cases, but lack flexibility in human language processing. |
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