ImpScore: A Learnable Metric For Quantifying The Implicitness Level of Language

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05172v1
• Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:23:29 GMT
• Title: ImpScore: A Learnable Metric For Quantifying The Implicitness Level of Language
• Authors: Yuxin Wang, Xiaomeng Zhu, Weimin Lyu, Saeed Hassanpour, Soroush Vosoughi,
• Abstract summary: Implicit language is essential for natural language processing systems to achieve precise text understanding and facilitate natural interactions with users. This paper develops a scalar metric that quantifies the implicitness level of language without relying on external references. ImpScore is trained using pairwise contrastive learning on a specially curated dataset comprising $112,580$ (implicit sentence, explicit sentence) pairs.
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• Abstract: Handling implicit language is essential for natural language processing systems to achieve precise text understanding and facilitate natural interactions with users. Despite its importance, the absence of a robust metric for accurately measuring the implicitness of language significantly constrains the depth of analysis possible in evaluating models' comprehension capabilities. This paper addresses this gap by developing a scalar metric that quantifies the implicitness level of language without relying on external references. Drawing on principles from traditional linguistics, we define ''implicitness'' as the divergence between semantic meaning and pragmatic interpretation. To operationalize this definition, we introduce ImpScore, a novel, reference-free metric formulated through an interpretable regression model. This model is trained using pairwise contrastive learning on a specially curated dataset comprising $112,580$ (implicit sentence, explicit sentence) pairs. We validate ImpScore through a user study that compares its assessments with human evaluations on out-of-distribution data, demonstrating its accuracy and strong correlation with human judgments. Additionally, we apply ImpScore to hate speech detection datasets, illustrating its utility and highlighting significant limitations in current large language models' ability to understand highly implicit content. The metric model and its training data are available at https://github.com/audreycs/ImpScore.

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