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DLV2 is an AI tool for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning which supports Answer Set Programming (ASP) - a logic-based declarative formalism, successfully used in both academic and industrial applications. Given a logic program modelling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Francesco Calimeri , Giovambattista Ianni , Francesco Pacenza , Simona Perri , Jessica Zangari

We introduce the Abductive Rule Learner with Context-awareness (ARLC), a model that solves abstract reasoning tasks based on Learn-VRF. ARLC features a novel and more broadly applicable training objective for abductive reasoning, resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Giacomo Camposampiero , Michael Hersche , Aleksandar Terzić , Roger Wattenhofer , Abu Sebastian , Abbas Rahimi

Reasoning is a crucial part of natural language argumentation. To comprehend an argument, one must analyze its warrant, which explains why its claim follows from its premises. As arguments are highly contextualized, warrants are usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Ivan Habernal , Henning Wachsmuth , Iryna Gurevych , Benno Stein

The recent criticisms of the robustness of post hoc model approximation explanation methods (like LIME and SHAP) have led to the rise of model-precise abductive explanations. For each data point, abductive explanations provide a minimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Gagan Biradar , Yacine Izza , Elita Lobo , Vignesh Viswanathan , Yair Zick

Misleading or false information has been creating chaos in some places around the world. To mitigate this issue, many researchers have proposed automated fact-checking methods to fight the spread of fake news. However, most methods cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Jing Yang , Didier Vega-Oliveros , Taís Seibt , Anderson Rocha

This study intends to systematically disentangle pure logic reasoning and text understanding by investigating the contrast across abstract and contextualized logical problems from a comprehensive set of domains. We explore whether LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Wenyue Hua , Kaijie Zhu , Lingyao Li , Lizhou Fan , Shuhang Lin , Mingyu Jin , Haochen Xue , Zelong Li , JinDong Wang , Yongfeng Zhang

Models that generate extractive rationales (i.e., subsets of features) or natural language explanations (NLEs) for their predictions are important for explainable AI. While an extractive rationale provides a quick view of the features most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Oana-Maria Camburu , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Julian McAuley

Current Explainable AI (ExAI) methods, especially in the NLP field, are conducted on various datasets by employing different metrics to evaluate several aspects. The lack of a common evaluation framework is hindering the progress tracking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Julia El Zini , Mohamad Mansour , Basel Mousi , Mariette Awad

The pursuit of automated scientific discovery has fueled progress from symbolic logic to modern AI, forging new frontiers in reasoning and pattern recognition. Transformers function as potential systems, where every possible relationship…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Markus J. Buehler

Effective multi-hop question answering (QA) requires reasoning over multiple scattered paragraphs and providing explanations for answers. Most existing approaches cannot provide an interpretable reasoning process to illustrate how these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Zhenyun Deng , Yonghua Zhu , Yang Chen , Michael Witbrock , Patricia Riddle

Models of complex systems are widely used in the physical and social sciences, and the concept of layering, typically building upon graph-theoretic structure, is a common feature. We describe an intuitionistic substructural logic called…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Simon Docherty , David Pym

A plausible definition of "reasoning" could be "algebraically manipulating previously acquired knowledge in order to answer a new question". This definition covers first-order logical inference or probabilistic inference. It also includes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-02-14 Leon Bottou

Argumentation is the process of constructing arguments about propositions, and the assignment of statements of confidence to those propositions based on the nature and relative strength of their supporting arguments. The process is modelled…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-08 John Fox , Paul J. Krause , Morten Elvang-Gøransson

Semi-structured explanation depicts the implicit process of a reasoner with an explicit representation. This explanation highlights how available information in a specific query is utilised and supplemented with information a reasoner…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Jiuzhou Han , Wray Buntine , Ehsan Shareghi

We evaluate two large language models (LLMs) ability to perform argumentative reasoning. We experiment with argument mining (AM) and argument pair extraction (APE), and evaluate the LLMs' ability to recognize arguments under progressively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Adrian de Wynter , Tangming Yuan

Abductive reasoning (or Abduction, for short) is among the most fundamental AI reasoning methods, with a broad range of applications, including fault diagnosis, belief revision, and automated planning. Unfortunately, Abduction is of high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Andreas Pfandler , Stefan Rümmele , Stefan Szeider

Non-deductive reasoning, encompassing inductive and abductive reasoning, is essential in addressing complex real-world questions. One key feature of inductive and abductive reasoning is that there are many valid hypotheses; the simplest…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yunxin Sun , Abulhair Saparov

Recent advancements in Chain-of-Thought prompting have facilitated significant breakthroughs for Large Language Models (LLMs) in complex reasoning tasks. Current research enhances the reasoning performance of LLMs by sampling multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhangyue Yin , Qiushi Sun , Qipeng Guo , Zhiyuan Zeng , Xiaonan Li , Tianxiang Sun , Cheng Chang , Qinyuan Cheng , Ding Wang , Xiaofeng Mou , Xipeng Qiu , XuanJing Huang

Answer set programming (ASP) is a logic programming formalism used in various areas of artificial intelligence like combinatorial problem solving and knowledge representation and reasoning. It is known that enhancing ASP with function…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Lukas Gerlach , David Carral , Markus Hecher

Existing approaches to explaining deep learning models in NLP usually suffer from two major drawbacks: (1) the main model and the explaining model are decoupled: an additional probing or surrogate model is used to interpret an existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Zijun Sun , Chun Fan , Qinghong Han , Xiaofei Sun , Yuxian Meng , Fei Wu , Jiwei Li