Papers by William Berkeley Sheffield
Is It JUST Semantics? A Case Study of Discourse Particle Understanding in LLMs (2025.findings-acl)
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William Berkeley Sheffield, Kanishka Misra, Valentina Pyatkin, Ashwini Deo, Kyle Mahowald, Junyi Jessy Li
| Challenge: | Discourse particles are crucial elements that subtly shape the meaning of text. |
| Approach: | They examine the capacity of linguists to distinguish fine-grained senses of English *just* . they find that they struggle to fully capture more subtle nuances of discourse particles . |
| Outcome: | The study shows that linguists struggle to capture subtle nuances of discourse particles. |