Not another Negation Benchmark: The NaN-NLI Test Suite for Sub-clausal Negation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03256v1
• Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 23:39:01 GMT
• Title: Not another Negation Benchmark: The NaN-NLI Test Suite for Sub-clausal Negation
• Authors: Hung Thinh Truong, Yulia Otmakhova, Timothy Baldwin, Trevor Cohn, Karin Verspoor, Jey Han Lau
• Abstract summary: Negation is poorly captured by current language models, although the extent of this problem is not widely understood. We introduce a natural language inference (NLI) test suite to enable probing the capabilities of NLP methods.
• Score: 59.307534363825816
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Negation is poorly captured by current language models, although the extent of this problem is not widely understood. We introduce a natural language inference (NLI) test suite to enable probing the capabilities of NLP methods, with the aim of understanding sub-clausal negation. The test suite contains premise--hypothesis pairs where the premise contains sub-clausal negation and the hypothesis is constructed by making minimal modifications to the premise in order to reflect different possible interpretations. Aside from adopting standard NLI labels, our test suite is systematically constructed under a rigorous linguistic framework. It includes annotation of negation types and constructions grounded in linguistic theory, as well as the operations used to construct hypotheses. This facilitates fine-grained analysis of model performance. We conduct experiments using pre-trained language models to demonstrate that our test suite is more challenging than existing benchmarks focused on negation, and show how our annotation supports a deeper understanding of the current NLI capabilities in terms of negation and quantification.

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