Living in the Moment: Can Large Language Models Grasp Co-Temporal Reasoning?

Zhaochen Su, Juntao Li, Jun Zhang, Tong Zhu, Xiaoye Qu, Pan Zhou, Yan Bowen, Yu Cheng, Min Zhang

Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024

Abstract

This work introduces CoTempQA, a co-temporal question answering benchmark with four scenarios for evaluating reasoning about concurrent and interconnected events. Experiments reveal a substantial gap between current language models and human performance on co-temporal reasoning.

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