The paper investigates how dense embedding models can be used for stance-aware argument retrieval, a task that requires both topic relevance and correct stance (support or attack) toward a claim. Experiments reveal that current models favor topical overlap and ignore stance, and that contrastive training to fix this bias leads to over-correction, where models focus too much on polarity keywords at the expense of topic relevance. To address this, the authors propose diagnostic word-ablation metrics and a data‑centric solution involving a balanced argument curriculum and LLM‑augmented stance‑inverted arguments, which helps powerful models learn deeper directional logic and improves stance‑aware retrieval performance.
By Angelo Sparacino, Francesca Toni, Adam Dejl
arXiv:2608.29529v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Semantic alignment between specialized normative texts is challenging when equivalent requirements use different terms, syntax, and levels of abstrac...
By William Schroeder
arXiv:2509. 15676v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In-context learning (ICL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for adapting large language models (LLMs) to new and data-scarce tasks using only a few carefully selected task-specific examples presented in the prompt.
By Vaibhav Singh, Soumya Suvra Ghosal, Kapu Nirmal Joshua, Soumyabrata Pal, Sayak Ray Chowdhury
The paper introduces AVA, a framework that tests whether general NLP embeddings can differentiate logic-sensitive relational semantics in ontologies and knowledge graphs. AVA uses 171,007 contrastive triplets from 163 ontologies, each containing an ontology statement, a paraphrase, and a hard negative with contradictory meaning. Evaluation of over 25 embedding models shows significant limitations, with the best model achieving only 0.739 triplet accuracy and 0.135 for hard negatives; fine‑tuning helps but does not transfer well to downstream Semantic Web tasks.
By Hamed Babaei Giglou, Jennifer D'Souza, S\"oren Auer
arXiv:2510. 09711v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for Knowledge Graph Completion (KGC), offering strong reasoning and generalization capabilities beyond traditional embedding-based approaches.
By Wenbin Guo, Xin Wang, Jiaoyan Chen, Lingbing Guo, Zhao Li, Zirui Chen
arXiv:2609.24932v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Despite the success of neural models in natural language processing, their black-box nature limits interpretability and conceals the linguistic phenome...
By David Torres-Moreno, Jorge Hermosillo-Valadez, Asela Reig-Alamillo