AI RESEARCH
How Much Do LLMs Know About Chinese Zero Pronouns?
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2605.31056v1 Announce Type: new Zero Pronouns (ZPs) are a pervasive linguistic phenomenon in pro-drop languages such as Chinese and have long posed a challenge for natural language processing systems. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) perform well on many Chinese language tasks, their ability to process ZPs remains poorly understood. We conduct a systematic investigation of LLMs' handling of Chinese ZPs through a sequence of linguistically motivated tasks, including identification, referentiality classification, referential type classification, resolution, and translation.