Pragmatic Reasoning Unlocks Quantifier Semantics for Foundation Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04659v1
• Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 13:00:06 GMT
• Title: Pragmatic Reasoning Unlocks Quantifier Semantics for Foundation Models
• Authors: Yiyuan Li, Rakesh R. Menon, Sayan Ghosh, Shashank Srivastava
• Abstract summary: We introduce QuRe, a crowd-sourced dataset of human-annotated generalized quantifiers in Wikipedia sentences featuring percentage-equipped predicates. We explore quantifier comprehension in language models using PRESQUE, a framework that combines natural language inference and the Rational Speech Acts framework.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Generalized quantifiers (e.g., few, most) are used to indicate the proportions predicates are satisfied (for example, some apples are red). One way to interpret quantifier semantics is to explicitly bind these satisfactions with percentage scopes (e.g., 30%-40% of apples are red). This approach can be helpful for tasks like logic formalization and surface-form quantitative reasoning (Gordon and Schubert, 2010; Roy et al., 2015). However, it remains unclear if recent foundation models possess this ability, as they lack direct training signals. To explore this, we introduce QuRe, a crowd-sourced dataset of human-annotated generalized quantifiers in Wikipedia sentences featuring percentage-equipped predicates. We explore quantifier comprehension in language models using PRESQUE, a framework that combines natural language inference and the Rational Speech Acts framework. Experimental results on the HVD dataset and QuRe illustrate that PRESQUE, employing pragmatic reasoning, performs 20% better than a literal reasoning baseline when predicting quantifier percentage scopes, with no additional training required.

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