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Determining and ranking the most salient entities in a text is critical for user-facing systems, especially as users increasingly rely on models to interpret long documents they only partially read. Graded entity salience addresses this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Jessica Lin , Amir Zeldes

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

Inferring commonsense knowledge is a key challenge in natural language processing, but due to the sparsity of training data, previous work has shown that supervised methods for commonsense knowledge mining underperform when evaluated on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-15 Joshua Feldman , Joe Davison , Alexander M. Rush

Sarcasm detection is important for several NLP tasks such as sentiment identification in product reviews, user feedback, and online forums. It is a challenging task requiring a deep understanding of language, context, and world knowledge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury , Snigdha Chaturvedi

Learning product representations that reflect complementary relationship plays a central role in e-commerce recommender system. In the absence of the product relationships graph, which existing methods rely on, there is a need to detect the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Da Xu , Chuanwei Ruan , Jason Cho , Evren Korpeoglu , Sushant Kumar , Kannan Achan

Commonsense knowledge about everyday concepts is an important asset for AI applications, such as question answering and chatbots. Recently, we have seen an increasing interest in the construction of structured commonsense knowledge bases…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hiba Arnaout , Simon Razniewski , Gerhard Weikum , Jeff Z. Pan

Large-scale commonsense knowledge bases empower a broad range of AI applications, where the automatic extraction of commonsense knowledge (CKE) is a fundamental and challenging problem. CKE from text is known for suffering from the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yuan Yao , Tianyu Yu , Ao Zhang , Mengdi Li , Ruobing Xie , Cornelius Weber , Zhiyuan Liu , Hai-Tao Zheng , Stefan Wermter , Tat-Seng Chua , Maosong Sun

This paper describes our system submitted to task 4 of SemEval 2020: Commonsense Validation and Explanation (ComVE) which consists of three sub-tasks. The task is to directly validate the given sentence whether or not it makes sense and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Hongru Wang , Xiangru Tang , Sunny Lai , Kwong Sak Leung , Jia Zhu , Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung , Kam-Fai Wong

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

Commonsense Knowledge Base (CSKB) Population aims at reasoning over unseen entities and assertions on CSKBs, and is an important yet hard commonsense reasoning task. One challenge is that it requires out-of-domain generalization ability as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Tianqing Fang , Quyet V. Do , Hongming Zhang , Yangqiu Song , Ginny Y. Wong , Simon See

Large language models have demonstrated impressive performance on commonsense tasks; however, these tasks are often posed as multiple-choice questions, allowing models to exploit systematic biases. Commonsense is also inherently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Qi Cheng , Michael Boratko , Pranay Kumar Yelugam , Tim O'Gorman , Nalini Singh , Andrew McCallum , Xiang Lorraine Li

Currently, long-chain reasoning remains a key challenge for large language models (LLMs) because natural texts lack sufficient explicit reasoning data. However, existing benchmarks suffer from limitations such as narrow coverage, short…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Weidong Zhan , Yue Wang , Nan Hu , Liming Xiao , Jingyuan Ma , Yuhang Qin , Zheng Li , Yixin Yang , Sirui Deng , Jinkun Ding , Wenhan Ma , Rui Li , Weilin Luo , Qun Liu , Zhifang Sui

Commonsense knowledge bases (KB) are a source of specialized knowledge that is widely used to improve machine learning applications. However, even for a large KB such as ConceptNet, capturing explicit knowledge from each industry domain is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Rituraj Singh , Sachin Pawar , Girish Palshikar

Commonsense datasets have been well developed in Natural Language Processing, mainly through crowdsource human annotation. However, there are debates on the genuineness of commonsense reasoning benchmarks. In specific, a significant portion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Quyet V. Do , Junze Li , Tung-Duong Vuong , Zhaowei Wang , Yangqiu Song , Xiaojuan Ma

Language comprehension and commonsense knowledge validation by machines are challenging tasks that are still under researched and evaluated for Arabic text. In this paper, we present a benchmark Arabic dataset for commonsense explanation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Saja AL-Tawalbeh , Mohammad AL-Smadi

In the 'Big Data' era, many real-world applications like search involve the ranking problem for a large number of items. It is important to obtain effective ranking results and at the same time obtain the results efficiently in a timely…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-08 Shichen Liu , Fei Xiao , Wenwu Ou , Luo Si

This paper presents a Kernel Entity Salience Model (KESM) that improves text understanding and retrieval by better estimating entity salience (importance) in documents. KESM represents entities by knowledge enriched distributed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Chenyan Xiong , Zhengzhong Liu , Jamie Callan , Tie-Yan Liu

Question generation (QG) is to generate natural and grammatical questions that can be answered by a specific answer for a given context. Previous sequence-to-sequence models suffer from a problem that asking high-quality questions requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Xin Jia , Hao Wang , Dawei Yin , Yunfang Wu

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

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their capabilities across various NLP tasks. Their potential in e-commerce is also substantial, evidenced by practical implementations such as platform search, personalized recommendations, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Langming Liu , Haibin Chen , Yuhao Wang , Yujin Yuan , Shilei Liu , Wenbo Su , Xiangyu Zhao , Bo Zheng