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Plausibility as Commonsense Reasoning: Humans Succeed, Large Language Models Do not

Sercan Karakaş

Published

Apr 6, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

40/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

45% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

Apr 6, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

Background context only.

What to verify

Read the full paper before copying any benchmark, metric, or protocol choices.

Main weakness

The available metadata is too thin to trust this as a primary source.

Human feedback signal
Detected
From extracted signals
Evaluation signal
Weak or implicit
Validate from full paper
Usefulness for eval research
40/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

Abstract

Large language models achieve strong performance on many language tasks, yet it remains unclear whether they integrate world knowledge with syntactic structure in a human-like, structure-sensitive way during ambiguity resolution. We test this question in Turkish prenominal relative-clause attachment ambiguities, where the same surface string permits high attachment (HA) or low attachment (LA). We construct ambiguous items that keep the syntactic configuration fixed and ensure both parses remain pragmatically possible, while graded event plausibility selectively favors High Attachment vs.\ Low Attachment. The contrasts are validated with independent norming ratings. In a speeded forced-choice comprehension experiment, humans show a large, correctly directed plausibility effect. We then evaluate Turkish and multilingual LLMs in a parallel preference-based setup that compares matched HA/LA continuations via mean per-token log-probability. Across models, plausibility-driven shifts are weak, unstable, or reversed. The results suggest that, in the tested models, plausibility information does not guide attachment preferences as reliably as it does in human judgments, and they highlight Turkish RC attachment as a useful cross-linguistic diagnostic beyond broad benchmarks.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

partial

Pairwise Preference

Directly usable for protocol triage.

"Large language models achieve strong performance on many language tasks, yet it remains unclear whether they integrate world knowledge with syntactic structure in a human-like, structure-sensitive way during ambiguity resolution."

Evaluation Modes

missing

None explicit

Validate eval design from full paper text.

"Large language models achieve strong performance on many language tasks, yet it remains unclear whether they integrate world knowledge with syntactic structure in a human-like, structure-sensitive way during ambiguity resolution."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Large language models achieve strong performance on many language tasks, yet it remains unclear whether they integrate world knowledge with syntactic structure in a human-like, structure-sensitive way during ambiguity resolution."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Large language models achieve strong performance on many language tasks, yet it remains unclear whether they integrate world knowledge with syntactic structure in a human-like, structure-sensitive way during ambiguity resolution."

Reported Metrics

missing

Not extracted

No metric anchors detected.

"Large language models achieve strong performance on many language tasks, yet it remains unclear whether they integrate world knowledge with syntactic structure in a human-like, structure-sensitive way during ambiguity resolution."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

No metric terms were extracted from the available abstract.

Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
Yes
Feedback types
Pairwise Preference
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
Multilingual
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
None
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Large language models achieve strong performance on many language tasks, yet it remains unclear whether they integrate world knowledge with syntactic structure in a human-like, structure-sensitive way during ambiguity resolution.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Large language models achieve strong performance on many language tasks, yet it remains unclear whether they integrate world knowledge with syntactic structure in a human-like, structure-sensitive way during ambiguity resolution.
  • We test this question in Turkish prenominal relative-clause attachment ambiguities, where the same surface string permits high attachment (HA) or low attachment (LA).
  • We construct ambiguous items that keep the syntactic configuration fixed and ensure both parses remain pragmatically possible, while graded event plausibility selectively favors High Attachment vs.\ Low Attachment.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Contribution summary

  • Large language models achieve strong performance on many language tasks, yet it remains unclear whether they integrate world knowledge with syntactic structure in a human-like, structure-sensitive way during ambiguity resolution.
  • In a speeded forced-choice comprehension experiment, humans show a large, correctly directed plausibility effect.
  • We then evaluate Turkish and multilingual LLMs in a parallel preference-based setup that compares matched HA/LA continuations via mean per-token log-probability.

Why it matters for eval

  • Large language models achieve strong performance on many language tasks, yet it remains unclear whether they integrate world knowledge with syntactic structure in a human-like, structure-sensitive way during ambiguity resolution.
  • In a speeded forced-choice comprehension experiment, humans show a large, correctly directed plausibility effect.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    Detected: Pairwise Preference

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    No clear evaluation mode extracted.

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    No metric terms extracted.