Context Matters: A Pragmatic Study of PLMs’ Negation Understanding
Reto Gubelmann, Siegfried Handschuh · Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2022
In linguistics, there are two main perspectives on negation: a semantic and a pragmatic view.So far, research in NLP on negation has almost exclusively adhered to the semantic view.In this article, we adopt the pragmatic paradigm to conduct a study of negation understanding focusing on transformer-based PLMs.Our results differ from previous, semantics-based studies and therefore help to contribute a more comprehensive -and, given the results, much more optimistic -picture of the PLMs' negation understanding.