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Commonsense reasoning systems should be able to generalize to diverse reasoning cases. However, most state-of-the-art approaches depend on expensive data annotations and overfit to a specific benchmark without learning how to perform…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Yu Jin Kim , Beong-woo Kwak , Youngwook Kim , Reinald Kim Amplayo , Seung-won Hwang , Jinyoung Yeo

We propose an unsupervised strategy for the selection of justification sentences for multi-hop question answering (QA) that (a) maximizes the relevance of the selected sentences, (b) minimizes the overlap between the selected facts, and (c)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Vikas Yadav , Steven Bethard , Mihai Surdeanu

We introduce DecompSR, decomposed spatial reasoning, a large benchmark dataset (over 5m datapoints) and generation framework designed to analyse compositional spatial reasoning ability. The generation of DecompSR allows users to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Lachlan McPheat , Navdeep Kaur , Robert Blackwell , Alessandra Russo , Anthony G. Cohn , Pranava Madhyastha

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Changsheng Lv , Shuai Zhang , Yapeng Tian , Mengshi Qi , Huadong Ma

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

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

Coreference resolution is essential for natural language understanding and has been long studied in NLP. In recent years, as the format of Question Answering (QA) became a standard for machine reading comprehension (MRC), there have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Mingzhu Wu , Nafise Sadat Moosavi , Dan Roth , Iryna Gurevych

Multi-hop knowledge based question answering (KBQA) is a complex task for natural language understanding. Many KBQA approaches have been proposed in recent years, and most of them are trained based on labeled reasoning path. This hinders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Kechen Qin , Yu Wang , Cheng Li , Kalpa Gunaratna , Hongxia Jin , Virgil Pavlu , Javed A. Aslam

Very large commonsense knowledge bases (KBs) often have thousands to millions of axioms, of which relatively few are relevant for answering any given query. A large number of irrelevant axioms can easily overwhelm resolution-based theorem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Abhishek Sharma , Michael Witbrock , Keith Goolsbey

When answering a question, humans utilize the information available across different modalities to synthesize a consistent and complete chain of thought (CoT). This process is normally a black box in the case of deep learning models like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Pan Lu , Swaroop Mishra , Tony Xia , Liang Qiu , Kai-Wei Chang , Song-Chun Zhu , Oyvind Tafjord , Peter Clark , Ashwin Kalyan

Commonsense inference to understand and explain human language is a fundamental research problem in natural language processing. Explaining human conversations poses a great challenge as it requires contextual understanding, planning,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Deepanway Ghosal , Pengfei Hong , Siqi Shen , Navonil Majumder , Rada Mihalcea , Soujanya Poria

Commonsense reasoning is a critical AI capability, but it is difficult to construct challenging datasets that test common sense. Recent neural question answering systems, based on large pre-trained models of language, have already achieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Michael Chen , Mike D'Arcy , Alisa Liu , Jared Fernandez , Doug Downey

Reasoning over commonsense knowledge bases (CSKB) whose elements are in the form of free-text is an important yet hard task in NLP. While CSKB completion only fills the missing links within the domain of the CSKB, CSKB population is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Tianqing Fang , Weiqi Wang , Sehyun Choi , Shibo Hao , Hongming Zhang , Yangqiu Song , Bin He

Question generation (QG) attempts to solve the inverse of question answering (QA) problem by generating a natural language question given a document and an answer. While sequence to sequence neural models surpass rule-based systems for QG,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Deepak Gupta , Hardik Chauhan , Akella Ravi Tej , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

The success of deep learning models on multi-hop fact verification has prompted researchers to understand the behavior behind their veracity. One possible way is erasure search: obtaining the rationale by entirely removing a subset of input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jiasheng Si , Yingjie Zhu , Deyu Zhou

In this paper, we present the first comprehensive categorization of essential commonsense knowledge for answering the Winograd Schema Challenge (WSC). For each of the questions, we invite annotators to first provide reasons for making…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Hongming Zhang , Xinran Zhao , Yangqiu Song

There has been a growing interest in solving Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks that require the model to reason beyond the content present in the image. In this work, we focus on questions that require commonsense reasoning. In contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Sahithya Ravi , Aditya Chinchure , Leonid Sigal , Renjie Liao , Vered Shwartz

Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs) provide reasoning and inquiry guidance for physicians, yet they face notable challenges, including high maintenance costs and low generalization capability. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yue Guo , Fanfu Wang , Jianwei Lv , Xincheng Shi , Yuchen Li , Youya Wang , Yunsheng Zeng , Yujing Liu , Yunhao Qiao , Gen Li , Junfeng Wang , Bo Yuan

Large Language Models (LLMs), despite their remarkable capabilities, rely on singular, pre-dominant reasoning paradigms, hindering their performance on intricate problems that demand diverse cognitive strategies. To address this, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zishan Ahmad , Saisubramaniam Gopalakrishnan

Understanding commonsense causality is a unique mark of intelligence for humans. It helps people understand the principles of the real world better and benefits the decision-making process related to causation. For instance, commonsense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Shaobo Cui , Zhijing Jin , Bernhard Schölkopf , Boi Faltings