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How about Time? Probing a Multilingual Language Model for Temporal Relations

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Tommaso Caselli, Irene Dini, Felice Dell’Orletta

This paper presents a comprehensive set of probing experiments using a multilingual language model, XLM-R, for temporal relation classification between events in four languages. Results show an advantage of contextualized embeddings over static ones and a detrimen- tal role of sentence level embeddings. While obtaining competitive results against state-of-the-art systems, our probes indicate a lack of suitable encoded information to properly address this task.

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Language ModelingLanguage ModellingRelation ClassificationSentenceTemporal Relation ClassificationXLM-R

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