Do language models capture implied discourse meanings? An investigation with exhaustivity implicatures of Korean morphology
<|reference_start|>Do language models capture implied discourse meanings? An investigation with exhaustivity implicatures of Korean morphology: Markedness in natural language is often associated with non-literal meanings in discourse. Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Korean is one instance of this phenomenon, where post-positional markers are selected based on both the semantic features of the noun phrases and the discourse features that are orthogonal to the semantic features. Previous work has shown that distributional models of language recover certain semantic features of words -- do these models capture implied discourse-level meanings as well? We evaluate whether a set of large language models are capable of associating discourse meanings with different object markings in Korean. Results suggest that discourse meanings of a grammatical marker can be more challenging to encode than that of a discourse marker.<|reference_end|>
@article{shin2024do,
    title={Do language models capture implied discourse meanings? An investigation
  with exhaustivity implicatures of Korean morphology},
    author={Hagyeong Shin, Sean Trott},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.09293},
    year={2024},
    doi={10.7275/scil.2139},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2405.09293},
    primaryClass={cs.CL cs.AI}
}