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Human understanding of narrative texts requires making commonsense inferences beyond what is stated explicitly in the text. A recent model, COMET, can generate such implicit commonsense inferences along several dimensions such as pre- and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Saadia Gabriel , Chandra Bhagavatula , Vered Shwartz , Ronan Le Bras , Maxwell Forbes , Yejin Choi

Natural Language Inference (NLI) is the task of determining whether a premise entails, contradicts, or is neutral with respect to a given hypothesis. The task is often framed as emulating human inferential processes, in which commonsense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chathuri Jayaweera , Brianna Yanqui , Bonnie Dorr

We present an open-source and extensible knowledge extraction toolkit DeepKE, supporting complicated low-resource, document-level and multimodal scenarios in the knowledge base population. DeepKE implements various information extraction…

Commonsense knowledge about object properties, human behavior and general concepts is crucial for robust AI applications. However, automatic acquisition of this knowledge is challenging because of sparseness and bias in online sources. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Julien Romero , Simon Razniewski , Koninika Pal , Jeff Z. Pan , Archit Sakhadeo , Gerhard Weikum

Recently several datasets have been proposed to encourage research in Question Answering domains where commonsense knowledge is expected to play an important role. Recent language models such as ROBERTA, BERT and GPT that have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Arindam Mitra , Pratyay Banerjee , Kuntal Kumar Pal , Swaroop Mishra , Chitta Baral

Commonsense knowledge is crucial for artificial intelligence systems to understand natural language. Previous commonsense knowledge acquisition approaches typically rely on human annotations (for example, ATOMIC) or text generation models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Tianqing Fang , Hongming Zhang , Weiqi Wang , Yangqiu Song , Bin He

This paper describes the design and functionality of ConvoKit, an open-source toolkit for analyzing conversations and the social interactions embedded within. ConvoKit provides an unified framework for representing and manipulating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jonathan P. Chang , Caleb Chiam , Liye Fu , Andrew Z. Wang , Justine Zhang , Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

Smooth and effective communication requires the ability to perform latent or explicit commonsense inference. Prior commonsense reasoning benchmarks (such as SocialIQA and CommonsenseQA) mainly focus on the discriminative task of choosing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Pei Zhou , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Behnam Hedayatnia , Seokhwan Kim , Jay Pujara , Xiang Ren , Yang Liu , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

This review explores recent advances in commonsense reasoning and intent detection, two key challenges in natural language understanding. We analyze 28 papers from ACL, EMNLP, and CHI (2020-2025), organizing them by methodology and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Md Nazmus Sakib

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

Starting from the COMET methodology by Bosselut et al. (2019), generating commonsense knowledge directly from pre-trained language models has recently received significant attention. Surprisingly, up to now no materialized resource of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Tuan-Phong Nguyen , Simon Razniewski

Knowledge Editing (KE) aims to adjust a Large Language Model's (LLM) internal representations and parameters to correct inaccuracies and improve output consistency without incurring the computational expense of re-training the entire model.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Liyu Zhang , Weiqi Wang , Tianqing Fang , Yangqiu Song

This paper presents Co-Arg, a new type of cognitive assistant to an intelligence analyst that enables the synergistic integration of analyst imagination and expertise, computer knowledge and critical reasoning, and crowd wisdom, to draw…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Mihai Boicu , Dorin Marcu , Gheorghe Tecuci , Lou Kaiser , Chirag Uttamsingh , Navya Kalale

Commonsense knowledge is paramount to enable intelligent systems. Typically, it is characterized as being implicit and ambiguous, hindering thereby the automation of its acquisition. To address these challenges, this paper presents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Ikhlas Alhussien , Erik Cambria , Zhang NengSheng

When humans read or listen, they make implicit commonsense inferences that frame their understanding of what happened and why. As a step toward AI systems that can build similar mental models, we introduce GLUCOSE, a large-scale dataset of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Nasrin Mostafazadeh , Aditya Kalyanpur , Lori Moon , David Buchanan , Lauren Berkowitz , Or Biran , Jennifer Chu-Carroll

The ability to compose learned concepts and apply them in novel settings is key to human intelligence, but remains a persistent limitation in state-of-the-art machine learning models. To address this issue, we introduce COGITAO, a modular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Yassine Taoudi-Benchekroun , Klim Troyan , Pascal Sager , Stefan Gerber , Lukas Tuggener , Benjamin Grewe

Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 have demonstrated a strong capability to generate coherent and contextually relevant text. However, amidst their successes, a crucial issue persists: their generated outputs still lack commonsense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Yufei Tian , Felix Zhang , Nanyun Peng

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

Scientific writing involves retrieving, summarizing, and citing relevant papers, which can be time-consuming processes in large and rapidly evolving fields. By making these processes inter-operable, natural language processing (NLP)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Nianlong Gu , Richard H. R. Hahnloser

Commonsense question answering (QA) requires a model to grasp commonsense and factual knowledge to answer questions about world events. Many prior methods couple language modeling with knowledge graphs (KG). However, although a KG contains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Yichong Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Ruochen Xu , Yang Liu , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang