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Commonsense reasoning, aiming at endowing machines with a human-like ability to make situational presumptions, is extremely challenging to generalize. For someone who barely knows about "meditation," while is knowledgeable about "singing,"…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Weiqi Wang , Tianqing Fang , Baixuan Xu , Chun Yi Louis Bo , Yangqiu Song , Lei Chen

Conceptualization, or viewing entities and situations as instances of abstract concepts in mind and making inferences based on that, is a vital component in human intelligence for commonsense reasoning. Despite recent progress in artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Mutian He , Tianqing Fang , Weiqi Wang , Yangqiu Song

Commonsense causality reasoning (CCR) aims at identifying plausible causes and effects in natural language descriptions that are deemed reasonable by an average person. Although being of great academic and practical interest, this problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Jiayao Zhang , Hongming Zhang , Weijie J. Su , Dan Roth

Most commonsense reasoning models overlook the influence of personality traits, limiting their effectiveness in personalized systems such as dialogue generation. To address this limitation, we introduce the Personality-aware Commonsense…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Weijie Li , Zhongqing Wang , Guodong Zhou

Commonsense AI has long been seen as a near impossible goal -- until recently. Now, research interest has sharply increased with an influx of new benchmarks and models. We propose two new ways to evaluate commonsense models, emphasizing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Nicholas Lourie , Ronan Le Bras , Chandra Bhagavatula , Yejin Choi

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Kai Xiong , Xiao Ding , Yixin Cao , Yuxiong Yan , Li Du , Yufei Zhang , Jinglong Gao , Jiaqian Liu , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Large-scale pre-trained language models have demonstrated strong knowledge representation ability. However, recent studies suggest that even though these giant models contains rich simple commonsense knowledge (e.g., bird can fly and fish…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Changlong Yu , Hongming Zhang , Yangqiu Song , Wilfred Ng

Widespread and rapid dissemination of false news has made fact-checking an indispensable requirement. Given its time-consuming and labor-intensive nature, the task calls for an automated support to meet the demand. In this paper, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Ipek Baris Schlicht , Erhan Sezerer , Selma Tekir , Oul Han , Zeyd Boukhers

Previous studies have shown the efficacy of knowledge augmentation methods in pretrained language models. However, these methods behave differently across domains and downstream tasks. In this work, we investigate the augmentation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Pedram Hosseini , David A. Broniatowski , Mona Diab

Commonsense knowledge plays an important role when we read. The performance of BERT on SQuAD dataset shows that the accuracy of BERT can be better than human users. However, it does not mean that computers can surpass the human being in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yidan Hu , Gongqi Lin , Yuan Miao , Chunyan Miao

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

Our work focuses on the social reasoning capabilities of foundation models for real-world human-robot interactions. We introduce the Social Human Robot Embodied Conversation (SHREC) Dataset, a benchmark of $\sim$400 real-world human-robot…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Dong Won Lee , Yubin Kim , Denison Guvenoz , Sooyeon Jeong , Parker Malachowsky , Louis-Philippe Morency , Cynthia Breazeal , Hae Won Park

The recent work of Clark et al. introduces the AI2 Reasoning Challenge (ARC) and the associated ARC dataset that partitions open domain, complex science questions into an Easy Set and a Challenge Set. That paper includes an analysis of 100…

A common thread of retrieval-augmented methods in the existing literature focuses on retrieving encyclopedic knowledge, such as Wikipedia, which facilitates well-defined entity and relation spaces that can be modeled. However, applying such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Wenhao Yu , Chenguang Zhu , Zhihan Zhang , Shuohang Wang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Yuwei Fang , Meng Jiang

Machine comprehension of texts longer than a single sentence often requires coreference resolution. However, most current reading comprehension benchmarks do not contain complex coreferential phenomena and hence fail to evaluate the ability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Pradeep Dasigi , Nelson F. Liu , Ana Marasović , Noah A. Smith , Matt Gardner

Understanding the speaker's intended meaning often involves drawing commonsense inferences to reason about what is not stated explicitly. In multi-event sentences, it requires understanding the relationships between events based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Sahithya Ravi , Raymond Ng , Vered Shwartz

We present the first comprehensive study on automatic knowledge base construction for two prevalent commonsense knowledge graphs: ATOMIC (Sap et al., 2019) and ConceptNet (Speer et al., 2017). Contrary to many conventional KBs that store…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Antoine Bosselut , Hannah Rashkin , Maarten Sap , Chaitanya Malaviya , Asli Celikyilmaz , Yejin Choi

This paper addresses the problem of comprehending procedural commonsense knowledge. This is a challenging task as it requires identifying key entities, keeping track of their state changes, and understanding temporal and causal relations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Mustafa Sercan Amac , Semih Yagcioglu , Aykut Erdem , Erkut Erdem

Scientific reasoning through Large Language Models in heliophysics involves more than just recalling facts: it requires incorporating physical assumptions, maintaining consistent units, and providing clear scientific formats through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Kevin Lee , Russell Spiewak , James Walsh

Event correlation reasoning infers whether a natural language paragraph containing multiple events conforms to human common sense. For example, "Andrew was very drowsy, so he took a long nap, and now he is very alert" is sound and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Yucheng Zhou , Xiubo Geng , Tao Shen , Guodong Long , Daxin Jiang