ACM Reference Format:

1 INTRODUCTION

2 WHAT IS NATURAL LANGUAGE REASONING
2.1 Definition
2.2 Categories of Inference
2.3 Potentials, Challenges, and Requirements of NLR

3 WHY PLMS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE REASONING
3.1 Introduction to PLMs
3.2 Empirical Development

4 METHODOLOGIES OF NLR
4.1 End-to-End Reasoning
4.2 Forward Reasoning
4.3 Backward Reasoning
4.4 Summary

5 NLR BENCHMARKS
5.1 Classical Logical Reasoning
5.2 Natural Language Inference
5.3 Multi-Hop Question Answering
5.4 Commonsense Reasoning
5.5 Complex Reasoning
5.6 Others

6 DISCUSSION
6.1 Open questions
6.2 Limitations
6.3 Future