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Main Authors: Chen, Meiqi, Ma, Yubo, Song, Kaitao, Cao, Yixin, Zhang, Yan, Li, Dongsheng
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09158
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author Chen, Meiqi
Ma, Yubo
Song, Kaitao
Cao, Yixin
Zhang, Yan
Li, Dongsheng
author_facet Chen, Meiqi
Ma, Yubo
Song, Kaitao
Cao, Yixin
Zhang, Yan
Li, Dongsheng
contents Event relations are crucial for narrative understanding and reasoning. Governed by nuanced logic, event relation extraction (ERE) is a challenging task that demands thorough semantic understanding and rigorous logical reasoning. In this paper, we conduct an in-depth investigation to systematically explore the capability of LLMs in understanding and applying event relation logic. More in detail, we first investigate the deficiencies of LLMs in logical reasoning across different tasks. Our study reveals that LLMs are not logically consistent reasoners, which results in their suboptimal performance on tasks that need rigorous reasoning. To address this, we explore three different approaches to endow LLMs with event relation logic, and thus enable them to generate more coherent answers across various scenarios. Based on our approach, we also contribute a synthesized dataset (LLM-ERL) involving high-order reasoning for evaluation and fine-tuning. Extensive quantitative and qualitative analyses on different tasks also validate the effectiveness of our approaches and provide insights for solving practical tasks with LLMs in future work. Codes are available at https://github.com/chenmeiqii/Teach-LLM-LR.
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spellingShingle Improving Large Language Models in Event Relation Logical Prediction
Chen, Meiqi
Ma, Yubo
Song, Kaitao
Cao, Yixin
Zhang, Yan
Li, Dongsheng
Artificial Intelligence
Event relations are crucial for narrative understanding and reasoning. Governed by nuanced logic, event relation extraction (ERE) is a challenging task that demands thorough semantic understanding and rigorous logical reasoning. In this paper, we conduct an in-depth investigation to systematically explore the capability of LLMs in understanding and applying event relation logic. More in detail, we first investigate the deficiencies of LLMs in logical reasoning across different tasks. Our study reveals that LLMs are not logically consistent reasoners, which results in their suboptimal performance on tasks that need rigorous reasoning. To address this, we explore three different approaches to endow LLMs with event relation logic, and thus enable them to generate more coherent answers across various scenarios. Based on our approach, we also contribute a synthesized dataset (LLM-ERL) involving high-order reasoning for evaluation and fine-tuning. Extensive quantitative and qualitative analyses on different tasks also validate the effectiveness of our approaches and provide insights for solving practical tasks with LLMs in future work. Codes are available at https://github.com/chenmeiqii/Teach-LLM-LR.
title Improving Large Language Models in Event Relation Logical Prediction
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09158