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A Simple Machine Learning Method for Commonsense Reasoning? A Short Commentary on Trinh & Le (2018)

Artificial Intelligence 2018-10-02 v1 Computation and Language Machine Learning

Abstract

This is a short Commentary on Trinh & Le (2018) ("A Simple Method for Commonsense Reasoning") that outlines three serious flaws in the cited paper and discusses why data-driven approaches cannot be considered as serious models for the commonsense reasoning needed in natural language understanding in general, and in reference resolution, in particular.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1810.00521,
  title  = {A Simple Machine Learning Method for Commonsense Reasoning? A Short Commentary on Trinh & Le (2018)},
  author = {Walid S. Saba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.00521},
  year   = {2018}
}

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5 pages

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