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Generative commonsense reasoning requires machines to generate sentences describing an everyday scenario given several concepts, which has attracted much attention recently. However, existing models cannot perform as well as humans, since…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Xin Liu , Dayiheng Liu , Baosong Yang , Haibo Zhang , Junwei Ding , Wenqing Yao , Weihua Luo , Haiying Zhang , Jinsong Su

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

Open-domain dialogue systems need to grasp social commonsense to understand and respond effectively to human users. Commonsense-augmented dialogue models have been proposed that aim to infer commonsense knowledge from dialogue contexts in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Sarah E. Finch , Jinho D. Choi

In question answering requiring common sense, language models (e.g., GPT-3) have been used to generate text expressing background knowledge that helps improve performance. Yet the cost of working with such models is very high; in this work,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Wenya Wang , Vivek Srikumar , Hanna Hajishirzi , Noah A. Smith

Recent advances in commonsense reasoning depend on large-scale human-annotated training data to achieve peak performance. However, manual curation of training examples is expensive and has been shown to introduce annotation artifacts that…

The ability of generative language models (GLMs) to generate text has improved considerably in the last few years, enabling their use for generative data augmentation. In this work, we propose CONDA, an approach to further improve GLMs'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Dheeraj Mekala , Tu Vu , Timo Schick , Jingbo Shang

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 question answering (QA) requires background knowledge which is not explicitly stated in a given context. Prior works use commonsense knowledge graphs (KGs) to obtain this knowledge for reasoning. However, relying entirely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Peifeng Wang , Nanyun Peng , Filip Ilievski , Pedro Szekely , Xiang Ren

Conversational agents are required to respond to their users not only with high quality (i.e. commonsense bearing) responses, but also considering multiple plausible alternative scenarios, reflecting the diversity in their responses.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Tianhui Zhang , Bei Peng , Danushka Bollegala

Despite the success of generative pre-trained language models on a series of text generation tasks, they still suffer in cases where reasoning over underlying commonsense knowledge is required during generation. Existing approaches that…

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

Determining the plausibility of causal relations between clauses is a commonsense reasoning task that requires complex inference ability. The general approach to this task is to train a large pretrained language model on a specific dataset.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Ieva Staliūnaitė , Philip John Gorinski , Ignacio Iacobacci

This paper provides preliminary results on exploring the task of performing turn-level data augmentation for dialogue system based on different types of commonsense relationships, and the automatic evaluation of the generated synthetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Marcos Estecha-Garitagoitia , Chen Zhang , Mario Rodríguez-Cantelar , Luis Fernando D'Haro

There are various models proposed on how knowledge is generated in the human brain including the semantic networks model. Although this model has been widely studied and even computational models are presented, but, due to various limits…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Jamshid Ghasimi , Nazanin Movarraei

Recently, commonsense reasoning in text generation has attracted much attention. Generative commonsense reasoning is the task that requires machines, given a group of keywords, to compose a single coherent sentence with commonsense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yunxiang Zhang , Xiaojun Wan

Commonsense knowledge is essential for advancing natural language processing (NLP) by enabling models to engage in human-like reasoning, which requires a deeper understanding of context and often involves making inferences based on implicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Yubo Xie , Zonghui Liu , Zongyang Ma , Fanyuan Meng , Yan Xiao , Fahui Miao , Pearl Pu

Machine common sense remains a broad, potentially unbounded problem in artificial intelligence (AI). There is a wide range of strategies that can be employed to make progress on this challenge. This article deals with the aspects of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Alexander Gavrilenko , Katerina Morozova

Unsupervised commonsense question answering requires mining effective commonsense knowledge without the rely on the labeled task data. Previous methods typically retrieved from traditional knowledge bases or used pre-trained language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yueqing Sun , Yu Zhang , Le Qi , Qi Shi

We propose a training-free approach to improve sentence embeddings leveraging test-time compute by applying generative text models for data augmentation at inference time. Unlike conventional data augmentation that utilises synthetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Manuel Frank , Haithem Afli

Commonsense generation aims at generating plausible everyday scenario description based on a set of provided concepts. Digging the relationship of concepts from scratch is non-trivial, therefore, we retrieve prototypes from external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Zhihao Fan , Yeyun Gong , Zhongyu Wei , Siyuan Wang , Yameng Huang , Jian Jiao , Xuanjing Huang , Nan Duan , Ruofei Zhang

Transformer-based language model approaches to automated story generation currently provide state-of-the-art results. However, they still suffer from plot incoherence when generating narratives over time, and critically lack basic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Xiangyu Peng , Siyan Li , Sarah Wiegreffe , Mark Riedl