DaVinci at SemEval-2024 Task 9: Few-shot prompting GPT-3.5 for Unconventional Reasoning
This work addresses the problem of lateral thinking in NLP for researchers, but it is incremental as it applies an existing method to a new dataset.
The paper tackled the BRAINTEASER task for unconventional reasoning in NLP by applying few-shot prompting to GPT-3.5 on sentence and word puzzles, achieving 26th place for sentence puzzles and 15th for word puzzles on the leaderboard.
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.