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While commonsense knowledge acquisition and reasoning has traditionally been a core research topic in the knowledge representation and reasoning community, recent years have seen a surge of interest in the natural language processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Prajjwal Bhargava , Vincent Ng

In order for conversational AI systems to hold more natural and broad-ranging conversations, they will require much more commonsense, including the ability to identify unstated presumptions of their conversational partners. For example, in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Forough Arabshahi , Jennifer Lee , Mikayla Gawarecki , Kathryn Mazaitis , Amos Azaria , Tom Mitchell

This paper focuses on how to take advantage of external relational knowledge to improve machine reading comprehension (MRC) with multi-task learning. Most of the traditional methods in MRC assume that the knowledge used to get the correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Jiangnan Xia , Chen Wu , Ming Yan

Artificial agents today can answer factual questions. But they fall short on questions that require common sense reasoning. Perhaps this is because most existing common sense databases rely on text to learn and represent knowledge. But much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Xiao Lin , Devi Parikh

Deep learning models perform poorly on tasks that require commonsense reasoning, which often necessitates some form of world-knowledge or reasoning over information not immediately present in the input. We collect human explanations for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Nazneen Fatema Rajani , Bryan McCann , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

Open-domain dialogue systems need to grasp social commonsense to understand and respond effectively to human users. Commonsense-augmented dialogue models have been proposed that aim to infer commonsense knowledge from dialogue contexts in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Sarah E. Finch , Jinho D. Choi

We present DiscoSense, a benchmark for commonsense reasoning via understanding a wide variety of discourse connectives. We generate compelling distractors in DiscoSense using Conditional Adversarial Filtering, an extension of Adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Prajjwal Bhargava , Vincent Ng

Commonsense knowledge has proven to be beneficial to a variety of application areas, including question answering and natural language understanding. Previous work explored collecting commonsense knowledge triples automatically from text to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Zhicheng Liang , Deborah L. McGuinness

Commonsense reasoning aims to incorporate sets of commonsense facts, retrieved from Commonsense Knowledge Graphs (CKG), to draw conclusion about ordinary situations. The dynamic nature of commonsense knowledge postulates models capable of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Farhad Moghimifar , Lizhen Qu , Yue Zhuo , Gholamreza Haffari , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

This review explores recent advances in commonsense reasoning and intent detection, two key challenges in natural language understanding. We analyze 28 papers from ACL, EMNLP, and CHI (2020-2025), organizing them by methodology and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Md Nazmus Sakib

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

Recent approaches to zero-shot commonsense reasoning have enabled Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) to learn a broad range of commonsense knowledge without being tailored to specific situations. However, they often suffer from human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hyuntae Park , Yeachan Kim , Jun-Hyung Park , SangKeun Lee

This paper addresses the problem of dialogue reasoning with contextualized commonsense inference. We curate CICERO, a dataset of dyadic conversations with five types of utterance-level reasoning-based inferences: cause, subsequent event,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Deepanway Ghosal , Siqi Shen , Navonil Majumder , Rada Mihalcea , Soujanya Poria

Language technologies that accurately model the dynamics of events must perform commonsense reasoning. Existing work evaluating commonsense reasoning focuses on making inferences about common, everyday situations. To instead investigate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Wenting Zhao , Justin T Chiu , Jena D. Hwang , Faeze Brahman , Jack Hessel , Sanjiban Choudhury , Yejin Choi , Xiang Lorraine Li , Alane Suhr

Non-extractive commonsense QA remains a challenging AI task, as it requires systems to reason about, synthesize, and gather disparate pieces of information, in order to generate responses to queries. Recent approaches on such tasks show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Kaixin Ma , Jonathan Francis , Quanyang Lu , Eric Nyberg , Alessandro Oltramari

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

When answering a question, people often draw upon their rich world knowledge in addition to the particular context. Recent work has focused primarily on answering questions given some relevant document or context, and required very little…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Alon Talmor , Jonathan Herzig , Nicholas Lourie , Jonathan Berant

While language models have become more capable of producing compelling language, we find there are still gaps in maintaining consistency, especially when describing events in a dynamically changing world. We study the setting of generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Alexander Gurung , Mojtaba Komeili , Arthur Szlam , Jason Weston , Jack Urbanek

We present a method for inferring diverse 3D models of human-object interactions from images. Reasoning about how humans interact with objects in complex scenes from a single 2D image is a challenging task given ambiguities arising from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Xi Wang , Gen Li , Yen-Ling Kuo , Muhammed Kocabas , Emre Aksan , Otmar Hilliges

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