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You Really Didn't Get That? Benchmarking Social Pragmatic Inference for Indirect and Playful Chinese Online Comments

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 3, 2026 · UTC

Chinese online comments often convey social meaning through indirect and playful language that is hard to interpret without context. Existing evaluations largely organize items around predefined phenomena or controlled pragmatic categories, leaving open whether models can distinguish plausible readings of what a naturally occurring comment is doing in a particular exchange. We introduce a benchmark for evaluating whether LLMs can recover such situated pragmatic meanings. From more than 200,000 public Chinese social media interaction records, we construct 4,735 human-validated diagnostic items,

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