A Hard Nut to Crack: Idiom Detection with Conversational Large Language Models
Francesca De Luca Fornaciari, Begoña Altuna, Itziar González-Dios, Maite Melero · 2024
In this work, we explore idiomatic language processing with Large Language Models (LLMs).We introduce the Idiomatic language Test Suite IdioTS, a new dataset of difficult examples specifically designed by language experts to assess the capabilities of LLMs to process figurative language at sentence level.We propose a comprehensive evaluation methodology based on an idiom detection task, where LLMs are prompted with detecting an idiomatic expression in a given English sentence.We present a thorough automatic and manual evaluation of the results and an extensive error analysis.