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We present a literature survey on non-interactive computational story generation. The article starts with the presentation of requirements for creative systems, three types of models of creativity (computational, socio-cultural, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Luis Miguel Botelho

Human tackle reading comprehension not only based on the given context itself but often rely on the commonsense beyond. To empower the machine with commonsense reasoning, in this paper, we propose a Commonsense Evidence Generation and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Ye Liu , Tao Yang , Zeyu You , Wei Fan , Philip S. Yu

We introduce a large dataset of narrative texts and questions about these texts, intended to be used in a machine comprehension task that requires reasoning using commonsense knowledge. Our dataset complements similar datasets in that we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Simon Ostermann , Ashutosh Modi , Michael Roth , Stefan Thater , Manfred Pinkal

End-to-end neural models for intelligent dialogue systems suffer from the problem of generating uninformative responses. Various methods were proposed to generate more informative responses by leveraging external knowledge. However, few…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Rongzhong Lian , Min Xie , Fan Wang , Jinhua Peng , Hua Wu

Mastering commonsense understanding and reasoning is a pivotal skill essential for conducting engaging conversations. While there have been several attempts to create datasets that facilitate commonsense inferences in dialogue contexts,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Sarah E. Finch , Jinho D. Choi

Commonsense reasoning refers to the ability of evaluating a social situation and acting accordingly. Identification of the implicit causes and effects of a social context is the driving capability which can enable machines to perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Farhad Moghimifar , Lizhen Qu , Yue Zhuo , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Gholamreza Haffari

Commonsense question answering (CQA) aims to test if models can answer questions regarding commonsense knowledge that everyone knows. Prior works that incorporate external knowledge bases have shown promising results, but knowledge bases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Zi-Yi Dou , Nanyun Peng

Knowledge-based recommendation models effectively alleviate the data sparsity issue leveraging the side information in the knowledge graph, and have achieved considerable performance. Nevertheless, the knowledge graphs used in previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Shenghao Yang , Weizhi Ma , Peijie Sun , Min Zhang , Qingyao Ai , Yiqun Liu , Mingchen Cai

Recently, knowledge-grounded conversations in the open domain gain great attention from researchers. Existing works on retrieval-based dialogue systems have paid tremendous efforts to utilize neural networks to build a matching model, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kai Hua , Zhiyuan Feng , Chongyang Tao , Rui Yan , Lu Zhang

Both humans and machines learn the meaning of unknown words through contextual information in a sentence, but not all contexts are equally helpful for learning. We introduce an effective method for capturing the level of contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Sungjin Nam , David Jurgens , Gwen Frishkoff , Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Temporal common sense has applications in AI tasks such as QA, multi-document summarization, and human-AI communication. We propose the task of sequencing -- given a jumbled set of aligned image-caption pairs that belong to a story, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Harsh Agrawal , Arjun Chandrasekaran , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh , Mohit Bansal

Humans have the capacity to draw common-sense inferences from natural language: various things that are likely but not certain to hold based on established discourse, and are rarely stated explicitly. We propose an evaluation of automated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Sheng Zhang , Rachel Rudinger , Kevin Duh , Benjamin Van Durme

Inferring commonsense knowledge is a key challenge in natural language processing, but due to the sparsity of training data, previous work has shown that supervised methods for commonsense knowledge mining underperform when evaluated on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-15 Joshua Feldman , Joe Davison , Alexander M. Rush

Media narratives wield tremendous power in shaping public opinion, yet computational approaches struggle to capture the nuanced storytelling structures that communication theory emphasizes as central to how meaning is constructed. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Rohan Das , Advait Deshmukh , Alexandria Leto , Zohar Naaman , I-Ta Lee , Maria Leonor Pacheco

Natural language understanding is a challenging problem that covers a wide range of tasks. While previous methods generally train each task separately, we consider combining the cross-task features to enhance the task performance. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Mingyue Shang , Zhenxin Fu , Hongzhi Yin , Bo Tang , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Commonsense explanation generation aims to empower the machine's sense-making capability by generating plausible explanations to statements against commonsense. While this task is easy to human, the machine still struggles to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Haozhe Ji , Pei Ke , Shaohan Huang , Furu Wei , Minlie Huang

Successful completion of reasoning task requires the agent to have relevant prior knowledge or some given context of the world dynamics. Usually, the information provided to the system for a reasoning task is just the query or some…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Vatsal Mahajan

Reading comprehension (RC)---in contrast to information retrieval---requires integrating information and reasoning about events, entities, and their relations across a full document. Question answering is conventionally used to assess RC…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Tomáš Kočiský , Jonathan Schwarz , Phil Blunsom , Chris Dyer , Karl Moritz Hermann , Gábor Melis , Edward Grefenstette

Existing dense or paragraph video captioning approaches rely on holistic representations of videos, possibly coupled with learned object/action representations, to condition hierarchical language decoders. However, they fundamentally lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Shih-Han Chou , James J. Little , Leonid Sigal

Understanding a narrative requires reading between the lines and reasoning about the unspoken but obvious implications about events and people's mental states - a capability that is trivial for humans but remarkably hard for machines. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Hannah Rashkin , Antoine Bosselut , Maarten Sap , Kevin Knight , Yejin Choi