Do LLMs Recognize me, When I is not me: Assessment of LLMs Understanding of Turkish Indexical Pronouns in Indexical Shift Contexts

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Main Authors: Oğuz, Metehan, Ciftci, Yusuf Umut, Bakman, Yavuz Faruk
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author Oğuz, Metehan
Ciftci, Yusuf Umut
Bakman, Yavuz Faruk
author_facet Oğuz, Metehan
Ciftci, Yusuf Umut
Bakman, Yavuz Faruk
contents Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in tasks such as machine translation, text summarization, question answering, and solving complex mathematical problems. However, their primary training on data-rich languages like English limits their performance in low-resource languages. This study addresses this gap by focusing on the Indexical Shift problem in Turkish. The Indexical Shift problem involves resolving pronouns in indexical shift contexts, a grammatical challenge not present in high-resource languages like English. We present the first study examining indexical shift in any language, releasing a Turkish dataset specifically designed for this purpose. Our Indexical Shift Dataset consists of 156 multiple-choice questions, each annotated with necessary linguistic details, to evaluate LLMs in a few-shot setting. We evaluate recent multilingual LLMs, including GPT-4, GPT-3.5, Cohere-AYA, Trendyol-LLM, and Turkcell-LLM, using this dataset. Our analysis reveals that even advanced models like GPT-4 struggle with the grammatical nuances of indexical shift in Turkish, achieving only moderate performance. These findings underscore the need for focused research on the grammatical challenges posed by low-resource languages. We released the dataset and code \href{https://anonymous.4open.science/r/indexical_shift_llm-E1B4} {here}.
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spellingShingle Do LLMs Recognize me, When I is not me: Assessment of LLMs Understanding of Turkish Indexical Pronouns in Indexical Shift Contexts
Oğuz, Metehan
Ciftci, Yusuf Umut
Bakman, Yavuz Faruk
Computation and Language
Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in tasks such as machine translation, text summarization, question answering, and solving complex mathematical problems. However, their primary training on data-rich languages like English limits their performance in low-resource languages. This study addresses this gap by focusing on the Indexical Shift problem in Turkish. The Indexical Shift problem involves resolving pronouns in indexical shift contexts, a grammatical challenge not present in high-resource languages like English. We present the first study examining indexical shift in any language, releasing a Turkish dataset specifically designed for this purpose. Our Indexical Shift Dataset consists of 156 multiple-choice questions, each annotated with necessary linguistic details, to evaluate LLMs in a few-shot setting. We evaluate recent multilingual LLMs, including GPT-4, GPT-3.5, Cohere-AYA, Trendyol-LLM, and Turkcell-LLM, using this dataset. Our analysis reveals that even advanced models like GPT-4 struggle with the grammatical nuances of indexical shift in Turkish, achieving only moderate performance. These findings underscore the need for focused research on the grammatical challenges posed by low-resource languages. We released the dataset and code \href{https://anonymous.4open.science/r/indexical_shift_llm-E1B4} {here}.
title Do LLMs Recognize me, When I is not me: Assessment of LLMs Understanding of Turkish Indexical Pronouns in Indexical Shift Contexts
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05569