How can we use models of cognition to help LLMs interpret figurative language (irony, hyperbole) in a more human-like manner? Come to our #ACL2025NLP poster on Wednesday at 11AM (exhibit hall - exact location TBA) to find out! @mcgill-nlp.bsky.social @mila-quebec.bsky.social @aclmeeting.bsky.social

What do systematic hallucinations in LLMs tell us about their generalization abilities? Come to our poster at #ACL2025 on July 29th at 4 PM in Level 0, Halls X4/X5. Would love to chat about interpretability, hallucinations, and reasoning :) @mcgill-nlp.bsky.social @mila-quebec.bsky.social

A blizzard is raging through Montreal when your friend says “Looks like Florida out there!” Humans easily interpret irony, while LLMs struggle with it. We propose a 𝘳𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭-𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘺-𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 probabilistic framework as a solution. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.09301 to appear @ #ACL2025 (Main)

Do LLMs hallucinate randomly? Not quite. Our #ACL2025 (Main) paper shows that hallucinations under irrelevant contexts follow a systematic failure mode — revealing how LLMs generalize using abstract classes + context cues, albeit unreliably. 📎 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22630 1/n