A Multi-layered Approach to Physical Commonsense Understanding: Creation and Evaluation of an Italian Dataset

Giulia Pensa, Begoña Altuna, Itziar Gonzalez-Dios


Abstract
In this paper, we explore physical commonsense reasoning of large language models (LLMs) and propose a specific methodology to evaluate low-level understanding of the physical world. Specifically, the goal is to create a test set to analyze physical commonsense reasoning in large language models for Italian and focus on a trustworthy analysis of the results. To that end, we present a tiered Italian dataset, called Graded Italian Annotated dataset (GITA), written and thoroughly annotated by a professional linguist, which allows us to concentrate on three different levels of commonsense understanding. Moreover, we create a semi-automated system to complete the accurate annotation of the dataset. We also validate our dataset by carrying out three tasks with a multilingual model (XLM-RoBERTa) and propose a qualitative analysis of the results. We found out that, although the model may perform at high-level classification tasks, its easoning is inconsistent and unverifiable, since it does not capture intermediate evidence.
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2024.lrec-main.74
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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Giulia Pensa, Begoña Altuna, and Itziar Gonzalez-Dios. 2024. A Multi-layered Approach to Physical Commonsense Understanding: Creation and Evaluation of an Italian Dataset. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 819–831, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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A Multi-layered Approach to Physical Commonsense Understanding: Creation and Evaluation of an Italian Dataset (Pensa et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
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