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Thunder-NUBench: A Benchmark for LLMs' Sentence-Level Negation Understanding

17 Jun 2025arXiv:2506.14397archive 2025-07-28

Yeonkyoung So, Gyuseong Lee, Sungmok Jung, Joonhak Lee, JiA Kang, Sangho Kim, Jaejin Lee

Negation is a fundamental linguistic phenomenon that poses persistent challenges for Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly in tasks requiring deep semantic understanding. Existing benchmarks often treat negation as a side case within broader tasks like natural language inference, resulting in a lack of benchmarks that exclusively target negation understanding. In this work, we introduce \textbf{Thunder-NUBench}, a novel benchmark explicitly designed to assess sentence-level negation understanding in LLMs. Thunder-NUBench goes beyond surface-level cue detection by contrasting standard negation with structurally diverse alternatives such as local negation, contradiction, and paraphrase. The benchmark consists of manually curated sentence-negation pairs and a multiple-choice dataset that enables in-depth evaluation of models' negation understanding.

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