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    title = "Do {LLM}s fail in bridging generation?",
    author = "Skachkova, Natalia  and
      Ostermann, Simon  and
      van Genabith, Josef  and
      Kiefer, Bernd",
    editor = "Tu, Ngoc Duyen Tanja  and
      Brunner, Annelen  and
      Lang, Christian",
    journal = "Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics",
    volume = "38",
    number = "2",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    publisher = "German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.jlcl-2.5/",
    doi = "10.21248/jlcl.38.2025.286",
    pages = "77--95",
    abstract = "In this work we investigate whether large language models (LLMs) `understand' bridging relations and can use this knowledge effectively. We present the results obtained from two tasks: generation of texts containing bridging and filling in missing bridging spans. We show that in most of the cases LLMs fail to generate bridging in a reliable way."
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%0 Journal Article
%T Do LLMs fail in bridging generation?
%A Skachkova, Natalia
%A Ostermann, Simon
%A van Genabith, Josef
%A Kiefer, Bernd
%J Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics
%D 2025
%8 July
%V 38
%N 2
%I German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology
%F skachkova-etal-2025-llms
%X In this work we investigate whether large language models (LLMs) ‘understand’ bridging relations and can use this knowledge effectively. We present the results obtained from two tasks: generation of texts containing bridging and filling in missing bridging spans. We show that in most of the cases LLMs fail to generate bridging in a reliable way.
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.jlcl-2.5/
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%P 77-95
Markdown (Informal)

[Do LLMs fail in bridging generation?](https://aclanthology.org/2025.jlcl-2.5/) (Skachkova et al., JLCL 2025)

ACL
  • Natalia Skachkova, Simon Ostermann, Josef van Genabith, and Bernd Kiefer. 2025. Do LLMs fail in bridging generation?. Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, 38(2):77–95.