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| author | Liu, Guangliang Chen, Xi Chen, Bocheng Zhang, Xitong Johnson, Kristen |
| author_facet | Liu, Guangliang Chen, Xi Chen, Bocheng Zhang, Xitong Johnson, Kristen |
| contents | While moral reasoning has emerged as a promising research direction for large language models (LLMs), achieving robust generalization remains a critical challenge. This challenge arises from the gap between what is said and what is morally implied. In this paper, we build on metapragmatic links and the moral foundations theory to close the gap. Specifically, we develop a pragmatic-inference approach that facilitates LLMs, for a given moral situation, to acquire the metapragmantic links between moral reasoning objectives and the social variables that affect them. This approach is adapted to three different moral reasoning tasks to demonstrate its adaptability and generalizability. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach significantly enhances LLMs' generalization in moral reasoning, paving the road for future research to utilize pragmatic inference in various moral reasoning tasks. |
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| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Pragmatic Inference for Moral Reasoning Acquisition: Generalization via Metapragmatic Links Liu, Guangliang Chen, Xi Chen, Bocheng Zhang, Xitong Johnson, Kristen Computation and Language While moral reasoning has emerged as a promising research direction for large language models (LLMs), achieving robust generalization remains a critical challenge. This challenge arises from the gap between what is said and what is morally implied. In this paper, we build on metapragmatic links and the moral foundations theory to close the gap. Specifically, we develop a pragmatic-inference approach that facilitates LLMs, for a given moral situation, to acquire the metapragmantic links between moral reasoning objectives and the social variables that affect them. This approach is adapted to three different moral reasoning tasks to demonstrate its adaptability and generalizability. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach significantly enhances LLMs' generalization in moral reasoning, paving the road for future research to utilize pragmatic inference in various moral reasoning tasks. |
| title | Pragmatic Inference for Moral Reasoning Acquisition: Generalization via Metapragmatic Links |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24102 |