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Many contextualized word representations are now learned by intricate neural network models, such as masked neural language models (MNLMs) which are made up of huge neural network structures and trained to restore the masked text. Such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Sunjae Kwon , Cheongwoong Kang , Jiyeon Han , Jaesik Choi

Commonsense reasoning is an important aspect of building robust AI systems and is receiving significant attention in the natural language understanding, computer vision, and knowledge graphs communities. At present, a number of valuable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Filip Ilievski , Pedro Szekely , Jingwei Cheng , Fu Zhang , Ehsan Qasemi

Very large commonsense knowledge bases (KBs) often have thousands to millions of axioms, of which relatively few are relevant for answering any given query. A large number of irrelevant axioms can easily overwhelm resolution-based theorem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Abhishek Sharma , Michael Witbrock , Keith Goolsbey

Negation is a common and important semantic feature in natural language, yet Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle when negation is involved in natural language understanding tasks. Commonsense knowledge, on the other hand, despite being a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zijie Wang , MohammadHossein Rezaei , Farzana Rashid , Eduardo Blanco

Question Answering (QA) is a longstanding challenge in natural language processing. Existing QA works mostly focus on specific question types, knowledge domains, or reasoning skills. The specialty in QA research hinders systems from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Wanjun Zhong , Yifan Gao , Ning Ding , Yujia Qin , Zhiyuan Liu , Ming Zhou , Jiahai Wang , Jian Yin , Nan Duan

Analogy is one of the core capacities of human cognition; when faced with new situations, we often transfer prior experience from other domains. Most work on computational analogy relies heavily on complex, manually crafted input. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Shahar Jacob , Chen Shani , Dafna Shahaf

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

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

Given questions regarding some prototypical situation such as Name something that people usually do before they leave the house for work? a human can easily answer them via acquired experiences. There can be multiple right answers for such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Michael Boratko , Xiang Lorraine Li , Rajarshi Das , Tim O'Gorman , Dan Le , Andrew McCallum

We present here an introduction to Brainstorming approach, that was recently proposed as a consensus meta-learning technique, and used in several practical applications in bioinformatics and chemoinformatics. The consensus learning denotes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-08 Dariusz Plewczynski

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) provide inherent interpretability by first mapping input samples to high-level semantic concepts, followed by a combination of these concepts for the final classification. However, the annotation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yangyi Li , Mengdi Huai

Question answering (QA) tasks have been posed using a variety of formats, such as extractive span selection, multiple choice, etc. This has led to format-specialized models, and even to an implicit division in the QA community. We argue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Daniel Khashabi , Sewon Min , Tushar Khot , Ashish Sabharwal , Oyvind Tafjord , Peter Clark , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Temporal commonsense reasoning refers to the ability to understand the typical temporal context of phrases, actions, and events, and use it to reason over problems requiring such knowledge. This trait is essential in temporal natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Georg Wenzel , Adam Jatowt

Recent research has shown that integrating domain knowledge into deep learning architectures is effective -- it helps reduce the amount of required data, improves the accuracy of the models' decisions, and improves the interpretability of…

Retrieval augmented language models have recently become the standard for knowledge intensive tasks. Rather than relying purely on latent semantics within the parameters of large neural models, these methods enlist a semi-parametric memory…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Wenhu Chen , Pat Verga , Michiel de Jong , John Wieting , William Cohen

When answering a question, people often draw upon their rich world knowledge in addition to the particular context. While recent works retrieve supporting facts/evidence from commonsense knowledge bases to supply additional information to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Yinya Huang , Meng Fang , Xunlin Zhan , Qingxing Cao , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin

The sequential process of conceptualization and instantiation is essential to generalizable commonsense reasoning as it allows the application of existing knowledge to unfamiliar scenarios. However, existing works tend to undervalue the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Weiqi Wang , Tianqing Fang , Chunyang Li , Haochen Shi , Wenxuan Ding , Baixuan Xu , Zhaowei Wang , Jiaxin Bai , Xin Liu , Jiayang Cheng , Chunkit Chan , Yangqiu Song

Generating commonsense assertions within a given story context remains a difficult task for modern language models. Previous research has addressed this problem by aligning commonsense inferences with stories and training language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Pedro Colon-Hernandez , Nanxi Liu , Chelsea Joe , Peter Chin , Claire Yin , Henry Lieberman , Yida Xin , Cynthia Breazeal

Commonsense knowledge bases such as ConceptNet represent knowledge in the form of relational triples. Inspired by the recent work by Li et al., we analyse if knowledge base completion models can be used to mine commonsense knowledge from…

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