At the just concluded 23rd China Computational Linguistics Conference, the paper "Do Large Language Models Understand Conversational Implications - A Case Study with a Chinese Sitcom" submitted by teachers and students from the School of Foreign Languages at Shanghai Jiao Tong University stood out from over 100 accepted papers and won the English Highlight Paper Award. The authors of this paper are undergraduate students Yue Shisen and Song Siyuan from the English Department, undergraduate student Cheng Xinyuan from the German Department, and assistant professor Hu Hai from the Translation Department.

 

Hu Hai's team from the Department of Translation has been engaged in computational linguistics and natural language processing for a long time. In recent years, researches have been conducted on natural language reasoning, evaluation of large language models and construction of syntactic tree base. He has published several papers in top journals of Computational Linguistics (e.g. Computational Linguistics) and top conferences (ACL, AAAI, COLING).

 

Yue Shisen       Senior of the English Department of the School of Foreign Languages

 

 

Song Siyuan       Second year undergraduate student majoring in English at the School of Foreign Languages

 

 

Cheng Xinyuan       Senior of the German Department at the School of Foreign Languages

 

 

Hu Hai        Assistant Professor of Translation Department, School of Foreign Languages

 

 

The China Computational Linguistics Conference is the largest academic conference in the field of computational linguistics in China. It is hosted by Shanxi University this year and was held from July 27th to July 28th in Taiyuan, Shanxi. The conference attracted more than 700 participants from all over the country, and a total of three English highlight papers and three Chinese highlight papers were selected.

 

To the best of the research team's knowledge, this paper is the first study to conduct discriminative and generative evaluations of Chinese pragmatic inference using a large language model. The preprint of this paper can be found at https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19509 obtain.

The School of Foreign Languages of Shanghai Jiao Tong University has been conducting research and teaching on language intelligence for a long time. Courses related to language intelligence, language data and Python applications, corpus linguistics, translation technology and management were offered earlier. This year, a new micro-major of language Data science was opened, with excellent teachers from Peking University and Shanghai International Studies University jointly providing intelligent language teaching both on and off the campus. (For more details, please see: Micro Major Enrollment Brochure of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Language Data Science Micro Major Enrollment Brochure)

 

This award will inspire teachers and students to continue their efforts and strive for new heights in future learning and research, further promoting the interdisciplinary and high-quality integration of language and data.