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.

这篇论文介绍了在 NLP 领域中进行的关于垂直思维的重要工作，随后探讨了对横向思维的研究不足以及 SemEval 2024 引入的 BRAINTEASER 任务，主要涉及句子拼图和词语拼图两种类型的问题，并借助 GPT-3.5 上使用少量提示的方法处理这两种类型的问题，并从中获得了对两种类型问题性质差异的洞见。在 Sentence Puzzle 和 Word Puzzle 任务中，我们的提示策略在排行榜上分别位列第 26 和第 15。