2024/05/19 by Suyash Vardhan Mathur, Mathur, Suyash Vardhan, Akshett Jindal +3
Computer Science · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Semantic Web and Ontologies #Topic Modeling
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2405.11559
openalex publication_date 2024/05/19 · openalex created_date 2024/05/22 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
While significant work has been done in the field of NLP on vertical thinking, which involves primarily logical thinking, little work has been done towards lateral thinking, which involves looking at problems from an unconventional perspective and defying existing conceptions and notions. Towards this direction, SemEval 2024 introduces the task of BRAINTEASER, which involves two types of questions -- Sentence Puzzles and Word Puzzles that defy conventional common-sense reasoning and constraints. In this paper, we tackle both types of questions using few-shot prompting on GPT-3.5 and gain insights regarding the difference in the nature of the two types. Our prompting strategy placed us 26th on the leaderboard for the Sentence Puzzle and 15th on the Word Puzzle task.