Infusing Prompts with Syntax and Semantics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06107v1
• Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 23:49:38 GMT
• Title: Infusing Prompts with Syntax and Semantics
• Authors: Anton Bulle Labate, Fabio Gagliardi Cozman,
• Abstract summary: We analyze the effect of directly infusing various kinds of syntactic and semantic information into large language models. We show that linguistic analysis can significantly boost language models, to the point that we have surpassed previous best systems.
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• Abstract: Despite impressive success, language models often generate outputs with flawed linguistic structure. We analyze the effect of directly infusing various kinds of syntactic and semantic information into large language models. To demonstrate the value of our proposals, we focus on the translation of natural language queries to SQL, in particular dealing with languages with less resources than English, to better investigate how much help we can get from low cost syntactic and semantic information. We show that linguistic analysis can significantly boost language models, to the point that we have surpassed previous best systems.

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