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Commonsense knowledge is critical in human reading comprehension. While machine comprehension has made significant progress in recent years, the ability in handling commonsense knowledge remains limited. Synonyms are one of the most widely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Gongqi Lin , Yuan Miao , Xiaoyong Yang , Wenwu Ou , Lizhen Cui , Wei Guo , Chunyan Miao

Understanding narratives requires reading between the lines, which in turn, requires interpreting the likely causes and effects of events, even when they are not mentioned explicitly. In this paper, we introduce Cosmos QA, a large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Lifu Huang , Ronan Le Bras , Chandra Bhagavatula , Yejin Choi

Successful completion of reasoning task requires the agent to have relevant prior knowledge or some given context of the world dynamics. Usually, the information provided to the system for a reasoning task is just the query or some…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Vatsal Mahajan

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

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

We introduce a large dataset of narrative texts and questions about these texts, intended to be used in a machine comprehension task that requires reasoning using commonsense knowledge. Our dataset complements similar datasets in that we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Simon Ostermann , Ashutosh Modi , Michael Roth , Stefan Thater , Manfred Pinkal

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

Pre-trained language models (LMs) like BERT have shown to store factual knowledge about the world. This knowledge can be used to augment the information present in Knowledge Bases, which tend to be incomplete. However, prior attempts at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Keshav Kolluru , Mayank Singh Chauhan , Yatin Nandwani , Parag Singla , Mausam

Large language models (LLMs) achieve impressive scores on standard benchmarks yet routinely fail questions that any human would answer correctly in seconds. We introduce BrainBench, a benchmark of 100 brainteaser questions spanning 20…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yuzhe Tang

Humans often have to read multiple documents to address their information needs. However, most existing reading comprehension (RC) tasks only focus on questions for which the contexts provide all the information required to answer them,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 James Ferguson , Matt Gardner , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Tushar Khot , Pradeep Dasigi

Understanding event and event-centered commonsense reasoning are crucial for natural language processing (NLP). Given an observed event, it is trivial for human to infer its intents and effects, while this type of If-Then reasoning still…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Li Du , Xiao Ding , Ting Liu , Zhongyang Li

Recent advances in reasoning language models and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards have significantly enhanced multi-step reasoning capabilities. This progress motivates the extension of reasoning paradigms to remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Shuchang Lyu , Haiquan Wen , Guangliang Cheng , Meng Li , Zheng Zhou , You Zhou , Dingding Yao , Zhenwei Shi

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

Commonsense reasoning often involves evaluating multiple plausible interpretations rather than selecting a single atomic answer, yet most benchmarks rely on single-label evaluation, obscuring whether statements are jointly plausible,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Obed Junias , Maria Leonor Pacheco

An interesting class of commonsense reasoning problems arises when people are faced with natural disasters. To investigate this topic, we present \textsf{RESPONSE}, a human-curated dataset containing 1789 annotated instances featuring 6037…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Aissatou Diallo , Antonis Bikakis , Luke Dickens , Anthony Hunter , Rob Miller

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

More than one hundred benchmarks have been developed to test the commonsense knowledge and commonsense reasoning abilities of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. However, these benchmarks are often flawed and many aspects of common sense…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Ernest Davis

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

This paper presents our work on "SNaCK," a low-dimensional concept embedding algorithm that combines human expertise with automatic machine similarity kernels. Both parts are complimentary: human insight can capture relationships that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Michael J. Wilber , Iljung S. Kwak , David Kriegman , Serge Belongie

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