Commonsense Knowledge with Negation: A Resource to Enhance Negation Understanding
arXiv cs.CL / 4/23/2026
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Key Points
- The paper argues that although negation is fundamental in natural language semantics, LLMs often perform poorly on tasks that require understanding negation.
- It highlights a gap in prior work: commonsense knowledge resources have been studied extensively, but typically without explicitly incorporating negation.
- The authors propose an automatic method to augment existing commonsense knowledge corpora with negation, producing two new datasets with over 2 million triples expressed as if-then relations.
- They report that pre-training LLMs on these negation-enhanced corpora improves the models’ ability to understand negation.
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