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Storytelling and narrative are fundamental to human experience, intertwined with our social and cultural engagement. As such, researchers have long attempted to create systems that can generate stories automatically. In recent years,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yuxin Wang , Jieru Lin , Zhiwei Yu , Wei Hu , Börje F. Karlsson

Generative commonsense reasoning which aims to empower machines to generate sentences with the capacity of reasoning over a set of concepts is a critical bottleneck for text generation. Even the state-of-the-art pre-trained language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Ye Liu , Yao Wan , Lifang He , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

Conditional story generation and contextual text continuation have become increasingly popular topics in NLP community. Existing models are often prone to output paragraphs of texts that gradually diverge from the given prompt. Although the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Ruixiao Sun , Jie Yang , Mehrdad Yousefzadeh

Generative commonsense reasoning refers to the task of generating acceptable and logical assumptions about everyday situations based on commonsense understanding. By utilizing an existing dataset such as Korean CommonGen, language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Dahyun Jung , Jaehyung Seo , Jaewook Lee , Chanjun Park , Heuiseok Lim

In empathetic conversations, individuals express their empathy towards others. Previous work has mainly focused on generating empathetic responses by utilizing the speaker's emotion. Besides, external commonsense knowledge has been applied…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Hua Cai , Xuli Shen , Qing Xu , Weilin Shen , Xiaomei Wang , Weifeng Ge , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xiangyang Xue

Reading comprehension QA tasks have seen a recent surge in popularity, yet most works have focused on fact-finding extractive QA. We instead focus on a more challenging multi-hop generative task (NarrativeQA), which requires the model to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Lisa Bauer , Yicheng Wang , Mohit Bansal

Event commonsense reasoning requires the ability to reason about the relationship between events, as well as infer implicit context underlying that relationship. However, data scarcity makes it challenging for language models to learn to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Tianqing Fang , Zeming Chen , Yangqiu Song , Antoine Bosselut

Generating commonsense assertions within a given story context remains a difficult task for modern language models. Previous research has addressed this problem by aligning commonsense inferences with stories and training language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Pedro Colon-Hernandez , Nanxi Liu , Chelsea Joe , Peter Chin , Claire Yin , Henry Lieberman , Yida Xin , Cynthia Breazeal

Determining the plausibility of causal relations between clauses is a commonsense reasoning task that requires complex inference ability. The general approach to this task is to train a large pretrained language model on a specific dataset.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Ieva Staliūnaitė , Philip John Gorinski , Ignacio Iacobacci

Contextualized representations trained over large raw text data have given remarkable improvements for NLP tasks including question answering and reading comprehension. There have been works showing that syntactic, semantic and word sense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Xuhui Zhou , Yue Zhang , Leyang Cui , Dandan Huang

Since commonsense information has been recorded significantly less frequently than its existence, language models pre-trained by text generation have difficulty to learn sufficient commonsense knowledge. Several studies have leveraged text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Wanqing Cui , Keping Bi , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

Recently, pretrained language models (e.g., BERT) have achieved great success on many downstream natural language understanding tasks and exhibit a certain level of commonsense reasoning ability. However, their performance on commonsense…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Shiyang Li , Jianshu Chen , Dian Yu

Teaching neural models to generate narrative coherent texts is a critical problem. Recent pre-trained language models have achieved promising results, but there is still a gap between human written texts and machine-generated outputs. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Zhe Hu , Hou Pong Chan , Lifu Huang

Conversational agents are required to respond to their users not only with high quality (i.e. commonsense bearing) responses, but also considering multiple plausible alternative scenarios, reflecting the diversity in their responses.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Tianhui Zhang , Bei Peng , Danushka Bollegala

Commonsense knowledge is essential for advancing natural language processing (NLP) by enabling models to engage in human-like reasoning, which requires a deeper understanding of context and often involves making inferences based on implicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Yubo Xie , Zonghui Liu , Zongyang Ma , Fanyuan Meng , Yan Xiao , Fahui Miao , Pearl Pu

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

Narrative story generation is a challenging problem because it demands the generated sentences with tight semantic connections, which has not been well studied by most existing generative models. To address this problem, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Jingjing Xu , Xuancheng Ren , Yi Zhang , Qi Zeng , Xiaoyan Cai , Xu Sun

The ability to select an appropriate story ending is the first step towards perfect narrative comprehension. Story ending prediction requires not only the explicit clues within the context, but also the implicit knowledge (such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Jiaao Chen , Jianshu Chen , Zhou Yu

This paper studies constrained text generation, which is to generate sentences under certain pre-conditions. We focus on CommonGen, the task of generating text based on a set of concepts, as a representative task of constrained text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Yixian Liu , Liwen Zhang , Wenjuan Han , Yue Zhang , Kewei Tu

Recently several datasets have been proposed to encourage research in Question Answering domains where commonsense knowledge is expected to play an important role. Recent language models such as ROBERTA, BERT and GPT that have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Arindam Mitra , Pratyay Banerjee , Kuntal Kumar Pal , Swaroop Mishra , Chitta Baral