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Why do language models struggle with implicit discourse relations?
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- Why do language models fail at implicit discourse relations while handling explicit connectives?
- Why do LLMs perform better on explicit discourse connectives than implicit relations?
- Why do explicit discourse connectives work when implicit relations fail?
- Why do explicit discourse connectives help LLMs but implicit relations cause failures?
- Can explicit connectives compensate for missing intentional tracking in LLMs?
- Can language models distinguish explicit from implicit discourse relations?
- Does chain-of-thought prompting overcome implicit meaning deficits in text analysis?
- Can presupposition projection strength vary by context in embeddings?
- What makes relational structure sufficient for generating contextually appropriate discourse?
- Why do explicit linguistic markers override semantic computation in models?
- How do fixed pragmatic templates prevent models from understanding context?
- Why do language models treat presupposition triggers as categorical patterns?
- Why do LLMs achieve only 24 percent accuracy on implicit discourse relations?
- How do embedding contexts like presupposition triggers affect LLM entailment reasoning?
- What other semantic relations benefit from explicit surface markers in text?
- Can LLMs compute how presuppositions project through embedded clauses?
- What linguistic blind spots do LLMs exhibit in discourse structure?
- Does DPO training with coreference chains teach spontaneous convention formation?
- How do politeness strategies depend on semantic ambiguity between literal and intended meaning?
- Why do published prose training data omit solicitation as a discourse property?
- What reader assumptions underlie anaphoric versus cataphoric discourse patterns?
- Can the same predicate generate different projection strength in different contexts?
- Why does coreference resolution become implicit in full-transcript prompting?
- What linguistic triggers make presuppositions most persuasive to readers?
- What role does discourse structure play in determining at-issueness?
- What happens to anaphoric reference when context exceeds the window?
- How does prompting language shift what LLMs express about political figures?
- What percentage of natural language relies on plausible deniability through ambiguous phrasing?
- What does cataphoric structure tell us about academic writing effectiveness?