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Existing open-domain dialogue generation models are usually trained to mimic the gold response in the training set using cross-entropy loss on the vocabulary. However, a good response does not need to resemble the gold response, since there…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Wei-Jen Ko , Avik Ray , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have shown remarkable progress on complex reasoning tasks. However, some questions posed to LRMs are inherently unanswerable, such as math problems lacking sufficient conditions. We find that LRMs continually…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yi Liu , Xiangyu Liu , Zequn Sun , Wei Hu

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

This study introduces Conversation Routines (CR), a structured prompt engineering framework for developing task-oriented dialog systems using Large Language Models (LLMs). While LLMs demonstrate remarkable natural language understanding…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed across diverse real-world applications and user communities. As such, it is crucial that these models remain both morally grounded and knowledge-aware. In this work, we uncover a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Saugata Purkayastha , Pranav Kushare , Pragya Paramita Pal , Sukannya Purkayastha

Commonsense knowledge is essential for many AI applications, including those in natural language processing, visual processing, and planning. Consequently, many sources that include commonsense knowledge have been designed and constructed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Filip Ilievski , Alessandro Oltramari , Kaixin Ma , Bin Zhang , Deborah L. McGuinness , Pedro Szekely

This Article introduces the generative reasonable person, a new tool for estimating how ordinary people judge reasonableness. As claims about AI capabilities often outpace evidence, the Article proceeds empirically: adapting randomized…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Yonathan A. Arbel

Commonsense reasoning is an appealing topic in natural language processing (NLP) as it plays a fundamental role in supporting the human-like actions of NLP systems. With large-scale language models as the backbone, unsupervised pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Letian Peng , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao

Reasoning is an essential component of human intelligence as it plays a fundamental role in our ability to think critically, support responsible decisions, and solve challenging problems. Traditionally, AI has addressed reasoning in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Ken Satoh , Ha-Thanh Nguyen , Francesca Toni , Randy Goebel , Kostas Stathis

We investigate response selection for multi-turn conversation in retrieval-based chatbots. Existing studies pay more attention to the matching between utterances and responses by calculating the matching score based on learned features,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Yongkang Liu , Shi Feng , Daling Wang , Kaisong Song , Feiliang Ren , Yifei Zhang

Humans use natural language to compose common concepts from their environment into plausible, day-to-day scene descriptions. However, such generative commonsense reasoning (GCSR) skills are lacking in state-of-the-art text generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 PeiFeng Wang , Jonathan Zamora , Junfeng Liu , Filip Ilievski , Muhao Chen , Xiang Ren

Current works in the generation of personalized dialogue primarily contribute to the agent presenting a consistent personality and driving a more informative response. However, we found that the generated responses from most previous models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Itsugun Cho , Dongyang Wang , Ryota Takahashi , Hiroaki Saito

Large language models (LLMs) have mastered abundant simple and explicit commonsense knowledge through pre-training, enabling them to achieve human-like performance in simple commonsense reasoning. Nevertheless, LLMs struggle to reason with…

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When operating in human environments, robots need to handle complex tasks while both adhering to social norms and accommodating individual preferences. For instance, based on common sense knowledge, a household robot can predict that it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Fethiye Irmak Dogan , Umut Ozyurt , Gizem Cinar , Hatice Gunes

Commonsense explanation generation aims to empower the machine's sense-making capability by generating plausible explanations to statements against commonsense. While this task is easy to human, the machine still struggles to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Haozhe Ji , Pei Ke , Shaohan Huang , Furu Wei , Minlie Huang

Do large language models (LLMs) display rational reasoning? LLMs have been shown to contain human biases due to the data they have been trained on; whether this is reflected in rational reasoning remains less clear. In this paper, we answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Olivia Macmillan-Scott , Mirco Musolesi

Reasoning is an essential component of human intelligence in that it plays a fundamental role in our ability to think critically, support responsible decisions, and solve challenging problems. Traditionally, AI has addressed reasoning in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ha-Thanh Nguyen , Ken Satoh , Francesca Toni , Randy Goebel , Kostas Stathis

Pretrained large Language Models (LLMs) are able to answer questions that are unlikely to have been encountered during training. However a diversity of potential applications exist in the broad domain of reasoning systems and considerations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Tim Hartill

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

To precisely evaluate a language model's capability for logical reading comprehension, we present a dataset for testing the understanding of the rationale behind critical reasoning. For questions taken from an existing multiplechoice…

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