NOPE: A Corpus of Naturally-Occurring Presuppositions in English

Understand

Understanding language requires grasping not only the overtly stated content, but also making inferences about things that were left unsaid.

• These inferences include presuppositions, a phenomenon by which a listener learns about new information through reasoning about what a speaker takes as given.
• Presuppositions require complex understanding of the lexical and syntactic properties that trigger them as well as the broader conversational context.
• In this work, we introduce the Naturally-Occurring Presuppositions in English (NOPE) Corpus to investigate the context-sensitivity of 10 different types of presupposition triggers and to evaluate machine learning models' ability to predict human inferences.