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To effectively interact with the real world, Large Language Models (LLMs) require entity-based commonsense reasoning, a challenging task that necessitates integrating factual knowledge about specific entities with commonsense inference.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Armin Toroghi , Faeze Moradi Kalarde , Scott Sanner

Multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) becomes particularly challenging when all choices are relevant to the question and are semantically similar. Yet this setting of MCQA can potentially provide valuable clues for choosing the right…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Wenqing Deng , Zhe Wang , Kewen Wang , Shirui Pan , Xiaowang Zhang , Zhiyong Feng

We propose a novel Chain Guided Retriever-reader ({\tt CGR}) framework to model the reasoning chain for multi-hop Science Question Answering. Our framework is capable of performing explainable reasoning without the need of any…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Weiwen Xu , Yang Deng , Huihui Zhang , Deng Cai , Wai Lam

Commonsense reasoning has long been considered as one of the holy grails of artificial intelligence. Most of the recent progress in the field has been achieved by novel machine learning algorithms for natural language processing. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Tanel Tammet

Fact-based dialogue generation is a task of generating a human-like response based on both dialogue context and factual texts. Various methods were proposed to focus on generating informative words that contain facts effectively. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Ryota Tanaka , Akinobu Lee

In this paper, we propose a new Robust Disentangled Counterfactual Learning (RDCL) approach for physical audiovisual commonsense reasoning. The task aims to infer objects' physics commonsense based on both video and audio input, with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Mengshi Qi , Changsheng Lv , Huadong Ma

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

Questions involving commonsense reasoning about everyday situations often admit many $\textit{possible}$ or $\textit{plausible}$ answers. In contrast, multiple-choice question (MCQ) benchmarks for commonsense reasoning require a hard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Shramay Palta , Nishant Balepur , Peter Rankel , Sarah Wiegreffe , Marine Carpuat , Rachel Rudinger

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

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 (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

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

Explainable multi-hop question answering (QA) not only predicts answers but also identifies rationales, i. e. subsets of input sentences used to derive the answers. This problem has been extensively studied under the supervised setting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Wenting Zhao , Justin T. Chiu , Claire Cardie , Alexander M. Rush

Commonsense datasets have been well developed in Natural Language Processing, mainly through crowdsource human annotation. However, there are debates on the genuineness of commonsense reasoning benchmarks. In specific, a significant portion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Quyet V. Do , Junze Li , Tung-Duong Vuong , Zhaowei Wang , Yangqiu Song , Xiaojuan Ma

When we use the wisdom of the crowds, we usually rank the answers according to their popularity, especially when we cannot verify the answers. However, this can be very dangerous when the majority make systematic mistakes. A fundamental…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yuqing Kong , Yunqi Li , Yubo Zhang , Zhihuan Huang , Jinzhao Wu

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) requires reasoning about both the knowledge involved in a document and knowledge about the world. However, existing datasets are typically dominated by questions that can be well solved by context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Yibo Sun , Daya Guo , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Zhao Yan , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin

A multi-hop question answering (QA) dataset aims to test reasoning and inference skills by requiring a model to read multiple paragraphs to answer a given question. However, current datasets do not provide a complete explanation for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Xanh Ho , Anh-Khoa Duong Nguyen , Saku Sugawara , Akiko Aizawa

We consider the task of answering complex multi-hop questions using a corpus as a virtual knowledge base (KB). In particular, we describe a neural module, DrKIT, that traverses textual data like a KB, softly following paths of relations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Bhuwan Dhingra , Manzil Zaheer , Vidhisha Balachandran , Graham Neubig , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , William W. Cohen

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

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Mo Yu , Yi Gu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Yufei Feng , Xiaodan Zhu , Michael Greenspan , Murray Campbell , Chuang Gan

Recent efforts to improve the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have focused on integrating formal logic solvers within neurosymbolic frameworks. A key challenge is that formal solvers lack commonsense world knowledge,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Joseph Cotnareanu , Chiara Roverato , Han Zhou , Didier Chetelat , Yingxue Zhang , Mark Coates