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Event schema provides a conceptual, structural and formal language to represent events and model the world event knowledge. Unfortunately, it is challenging to automatically induce high-quality and high-coverage event schemas due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Jialong Tang , Hongyu Lin , Zhuoqun Li , Yaojie Lu , Xianpei Han , Le Sun

We describe a detailed analysis of a sample of large benchmark of commonsense reasoning problems that has been automatically obtained from WordNet, SUMO and their mapping. The objective is to provide a better assessment of the quality of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Javier Álvez , Itziar Gonzalez-Dios , German Rigau

This article studies the commonsense object affordance concept for enabling close-to-human task planning and task optimization of embodied robotic agents in urban environments. The focus of the object affordance is on reasoning how to…

This paper proposes a novel approach to learn commonsense from images, instead of limited raw texts or costly constructed knowledge bases, for the commonsense reasoning problem in NLP. Our motivation comes from the fact that an image is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Wanqing Cui , Yanyan Lan , Liang Pang , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

A primary goal of online deliberation platforms is to identify ideas that are broadly agreeable to a community of users through their expressed preferences. Yet, consensus elicitation should ideally extend beyond the specific statements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Carter Blair , Ben Armstrong , Shiri Alouf-Heffetz , Nimrod Talmon , Davide Grossi

Commonsense reasoning is omnipresent in human communications and thus is an important feature for open-domain dialogue systems. However, evaluating commonsense in dialogue systems is still an open challenge. We take the first step by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Sarik Ghazarian , Yijia Shao , Rujun Han , Aram Galstyan , Nanyun Peng

The context-aware emotional reasoning ability of AI systems, especially in conversations, is of vital importance in applications such as online opinion mining from social media and empathetic dialogue systems. Due to the implicit nature of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Kailai Yang , Tianlin Zhang , Shaoxiong Ji , Sophia Ananiadou

We present a method for extracting \emph{monosemantic} neurons, defined as latent dimensions that align with coherent and interpretable concepts, from user and item embeddings in recommender systems. Our approach employs a Sparse…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Dor Arviv , Yehonatan Elisha , Oren Barkan , Noam Koenigstein

Contextual commonsense inference is the task of generating various types of explanations around the events in a dyadic dialogue, including cause, motivation, emotional reaction, and others. Producing a coherent and non-trivial explanation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Siqi Shen , Deepanway Ghosal , Navonil Majumder , Henry Lim , Rada Mihalcea , Soujanya Poria

Commonsense knowledge is crucial to many natural language processing tasks. Existing works usually incorporate graph knowledge with conventional graph neural networks (GNNs), resulting in a sequential pipeline that compartmentalizes the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Hongbo Zhang , Chen Tang , Tyler Loakman , Bohao Yang , Stefan Goetze , Chenghua Lin

Large language models have been widely adopted in natural language processing, yet they face the challenge of generating unreliable content. Recent works aim to reduce misinformation and hallucinations by resorting to attribution as a means…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Dongfang Li , Zetian Sun , Baotian Hu , Zhenyu Liu , Xinshuo Hu , Xuebo Liu , Min Zhang

CommonsenseQA is a task in which a correct answer is predicted through commonsense reasoning with pre-defined knowledge. Most previous works have aimed to improve the performance with distributed representation without considering the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Jungwoo Lim , Dongsuk Oh , Yoonna Jang , Kisu Yang , Heuiseok Lim

A key trait of daily conversations between individuals is the ability to express empathy towards others, and exploring ways to implement empathy is a crucial step towards human-like dialogue systems. Previous approaches on this topic mainly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Sahand Sabour , Chujie Zheng , Minlie Huang

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

Existing commonsense reasoning datasets for AI and NLP tasks fail to address an important aspect of human life: cultural differences. We introduce an approach that extends prior work on crowdsourcing commonsense knowledge by incorporating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Anurag Acharya , Kartik Talamadupula , Mark A Finlayson

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

Building dialog agents that can converse naturally with humans is a challenging yet intriguing problem of artificial intelligence. In open-domain human-computer conversation, where the conversational agent is expected to respond to human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Tom Young , Erik Cambria , Iti Chaturvedi , Minlie Huang , Hao Zhou , Subham Biswas

The importance of contexts has been widely recognized in recommender systems for individuals. However, most existing group recommendation models in Event-Based Social Networks (EBSNs) focus on how to aggregate group members' preferences to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Guoqiong Liao , Xiaomei Huang , Neal N. Xiong , Changxuan Wan

Smooth and effective communication requires the ability to perform latent or explicit commonsense inference. Prior commonsense reasoning benchmarks (such as SocialIQA and CommonsenseQA) mainly focus on the discriminative task of choosing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Pei Zhou , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Behnam Hedayatnia , Seokhwan Kim , Jay Pujara , Xiang Ren , Yang Liu , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

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