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Commonsense reasoning simulates the human ability to make presumptions about our physical world, and it is an indispensable cornerstone in building general AI systems. We propose a new commonsense reasoning dataset based on human's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Yufei Feng , Xiaodan Zhu , Michael Greenspan , Murray Campbell

Online misinformation has been a serious threat to public health and society. Social media users are known to reply to misinformation posts with counter-misinformation messages, which have been shown to be effective in curbing the spread of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Yingchen Ma , Bing He , Nathan Subrahmanian , Srijan Kumar

Societies and organizations often fail to surface latent consensus because individuals fear social censure. A manager might suspect a silent majority would offer a criticism, support a change, report a risk, or endorse a policy -- if only…

General Economics · Economics 2026-04-02 Matthew Cashman

Goal-oriented conversational agents are becoming prevalent in our daily lives. For these systems to engage users and achieve their goals, they need to exhibit appropriate social behavior as well as provide informative replies that guide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yi-Chia Wang , Alexandros Papangelis , Runze Wang , Zhaleh Feizollahi , Gokhan Tur , Robert Kraut

Recently, large-scale pre-trained language models have demonstrated impressive performance on several commonsense-reasoning benchmark datasets. However, building machines with commonsense to compose realistically plausible sentences remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Bill Yuchen Lin , Wangchunshu Zhou , Ming Shen , Pei Zhou , Chandra Bhagavatula , Yejin Choi , Xiang Ren

Spoken question answering (SQA) systems are critical for digital assistants and other real-world use cases, but evaluating their performance is a challenge due to the importance of human-spoken questions. This study presents a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Yijing Wu , SaiKrishna Rallabandi , Ravisutha Srinivasamurthy , Parag Pravin Dakle , Alolika Gon , Preethi Raghavan

Humans quite frequently interact with conversational agents. The rapid advancement in generative language modeling through neural networks has helped advance the creation of intelligent conversational agents. Researchers typically evaluate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Sashank Santhanam , Alireza Karduni , Samira Shaikh

The ability of reasoning over evidence has received increasing attention in question answering (QA). Recently, natural language database (NLDB) conducts complex QA in knowledge base with textual evidences rather than structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Minjun Zhu , Yixuan Weng , Shizhu He , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

Understanding and characterizing how people interact in information-seeking conversations is crucial in developing conversational search systems. In this paper, we introduce a new dataset designed for this purpose and use it to analyze…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Chen Qu , Liu Yang , W. Bruce Croft , Johanne R. Trippas , Yongfeng Zhang , Minghui Qiu

In an information-seeking conversation, a user may ask questions that are under-specified or unanswerable. An ideal agent would interact by initiating different response types according to the available knowledge sources. However, most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Zeqiu Wu , Ryu Parish , Hao Cheng , Sewon Min , Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Mari Ostendorf , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Effective human-AI collaboration requires humans to accurately gauge AI capabilities and calibrate their trust accordingly. Humans often have context-dependent private information, referred to as Unique Human Knowledge (UHK), that is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Zenan Chen , Ruijiang Gao , Yingzhi Liang

When humans read or listen, they make implicit commonsense inferences that frame their understanding of what happened and why. As a step toward AI systems that can build similar mental models, we introduce GLUCOSE, a large-scale dataset of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Nasrin Mostafazadeh , Aditya Kalyanpur , Lori Moon , David Buchanan , Lauren Berkowitz , Or Biran , Jennifer Chu-Carroll

The proliferation of artificial intelligence provides an opportunity to create psychological spaciousness in society. Spaciousness is defined as the ability to hold diverse interpersonal interactions and forms the basis for vulnerability…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Omkar Suresh Hatti

Commonsense knowledge (CSK) supports a variety of AI applications, from visual understanding to chatbots. Prior works on acquiring CSK, such as ConceptNet, have compiled statements that associate concepts, like everyday objects or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Yohan Chalier , Simon Razniewski , Gerhard Weikum

Humans can seamlessly reason with circumstantial preconditions of commonsense knowledge. We understand that a glass is used for drinking water, unless the glass is broken or the water is toxic. Despite state-of-the-art (SOTA) language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Ehsan Qasemi , Filip Ilievski , Muhao Chen , Pedro Szekely

Is an LLM telling you different facts than it's telling me? This paper introduces ConsistencyAI, an independent benchmark for measuring the factual consistency of large language models (LLMs) for different personas. ConsistencyAI tests…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Peter Banyas , Shristi Sharma , Alistair Simmons , Atharva Vispute

We introduce a new reading comprehension dataset, dubbed MultiWikiQA, which covers 306 languages and has 1,220,757 samples in total. We start with Wikipedia articles, which also provide the context for the dataset samples, and use an LLM to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Dan Saattrup Smart

Search-Oriented Conversational AI (SCAI) is an established venue that regularly puts a spotlight upon the recent work advancing the field of conversational search. SCAI'21 was organised as an independent on-line event and featured a shared…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Svitlana Vakulenko , Johannes Kiesel , Maik Fröbe

Existing commonsense reasoning datasets for AI and NLP tasks fail to address an important aspect of human life: cultural differences. We introduce an approach that extends prior work on crowdsourcing commonsense knowledge by incorporating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Anurag Acharya , Kartik Talamadupula , Mark A Finlayson

Human conversation relies heavily on conversational implicature, in which speakers convey meanings that are suggested rather than explicitly stated. Although recent large language models exhibit strong conversational fluency, they remain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hirona Jacqueline Arai , Xiang Ren