"Is the Pope Catholic?" Applying Chain-of-Thought Reasoning to
  Understanding Conversational Implicatures
Zae Myung Kim David E. Taylor Dongyeop Kang
Conversational implicatures are pragmatic inferences that require listeners
to deduce the intended meaning conveyed by a speaker from their explicit
utterances. Although such inferential reasoning is fundamental to human
communication, recent research indicates that large language models struggle to
comprehend these implicatures as effectively as the average human. This paper
demonstrates that by incorporating Grice's Four Maxims into the model through
chain-of-thought prompting, we can significantly enhance its performance,
surpassing even the average human performance on this task.