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Reading comprehension QA tasks have seen a recent surge in popularity, yet most works have focused on fact-finding extractive QA. We instead focus on a more challenging multi-hop generative task (NarrativeQA), which requires the model to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Lisa Bauer , Yicheng Wang , Mohit Bansal

Understanding events necessitates grasping their temporal context, which is often not explicitly stated in natural language. For example, it is not a trivial task for a machine to infer that a museum tour may last for a few hours, but can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Lekshmi R Nair , Arun Sankar , Koninika Pal

The majority of research in computational psycholinguistics has concentrated on the processing of words. This study introduces innovative methods for computing sentence-level metrics using multilingual large language models. The metrics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Kun Sun , Rong Wang

We consider the problem of collectively detecting multiple events, particularly in cross-sentence settings. The key to dealing with the problem is to encode semantic information and model event inter-dependency at a document-level. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Dongfang Lou , Zhilin Liao , Shumin Deng , Ningyu Zhang , Huajun Chen

Commonsense reasoning refers to the ability of evaluating a social situation and acting accordingly. Identification of the implicit causes and effects of a social context is the driving capability which can enable machines to perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Farhad Moghimifar , Lizhen Qu , Yue Zhuo , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Gholamreza Haffari

Commonsense reasoning simulates the human ability to make presumptions about our physical world, and it is an indispensable cornerstone in building general AI systems. We propose a new commonsense reasoning dataset based on human's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Yufei Feng , Xiaodan Zhu , Michael Greenspan , Murray Campbell

Messages in human conversations inherently convey emotions. The task of detecting emotions in textual conversations leads to a wide range of applications such as opinion mining in social networks. However, enabling machines to analyze…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Peixiang Zhong , Di Wang , Chunyan Miao

To effectively interact with the real world, Large Language Models (LLMs) require entity-based commonsense reasoning, a challenging task that necessitates integrating factual knowledge about specific entities with commonsense inference.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Armin Toroghi , Faeze Moradi Kalarde , Scott Sanner

In this paper, we aim to extract commonsense knowledge to improve machine reading comprehension. We propose to represent relations implicitly by situating structured knowledge in a context instead of relying on a pre-defined set of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Kai Sun , Dian Yu , Jianshu Chen , Dong Yu , Claire Cardie

Identifying the topic (domain) of each user's utterance in open-domain conversational systems is a crucial step for all subsequent language understanding and response tasks. In particular, for complex domains, an utterance is often routed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Ali Ahmadvand , Harshita Sahijwani , Jason Ingyu Choi , Eugene Agichtein

Acquiring commonsense knowledge and reasoning is recognized as an important frontier in achieving general Artificial Intelligence (AI). Recent research in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community has demonstrated significant progress…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Ke Shen , Mayank Kejriwal

Recently, large-scale pre-trained language models have demonstrated impressive performance on several commonsense-reasoning benchmark datasets. However, building machines with commonsense to compose realistically plausible sentences remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Bill Yuchen Lin , Wangchunshu Zhou , Ming Shen , Pei Zhou , Chandra Bhagavatula , Yejin Choi , Xiang Ren

We introduce CEMTM, a context-enhanced multimodal topic model designed to infer coherent and interpretable topic structures from both short and long documents containing text and images. CEMTM builds on fine-tuned large vision language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Amirhossein Abaskohi , Raymond Li , Chuyuan Li , Shafiq Joty , Giuseppe Carenini

Reasoning about real-life events is a unifying challenge in AI and NLP that has profound utility in a variety of domains, while fallacy in high-stake applications could be catastrophic. Able to work with diverse text in these domains, large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Li Zhang

Interleaved image-text generation has emerged as a crucial multimodal task, aiming at creating sequences of interleaved visual and textual content given a query. Despite notable advancements in recent multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Wei Chen , Lin Li , Yongqi Yang , Bin Wen , Fan Yang , Tingting Gao , Yu Wu , Long Chen

Identifying the interaction targets of bioactive compounds is a foundational element for deciphering their pharmacological effects. Target prediction algorithms equip researchers with an effective tool to rapidly scope and explore potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Haojie Wang , Zhe Zhang , Haotian Gao , Xiangying Zhang , Jingyuan Li , Zhihang Chen , Xinchong Chen , Yifei Qi , Yan Li , Renxiao Wang

We present a novel document-level model for finding argument spans that fill an event's roles, connecting related ideas in sentence-level semantic role labeling and coreference resolution. Because existing datasets for cross-sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Seth Ebner , Patrick Xia , Ryan Culkin , Kyle Rawlins , Benjamin Van Durme

We present CEMA: Causal Explanations in Multi-Agent systems; a framework for creating causal natural language explanations of an agent's decisions in dynamic sequential multi-agent systems to build more trustworthy autonomous agents. Unlike…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Balint Gyevnar , Cheng Wang , Christopher G. Lucas , Shay B. Cohen , Stefano V. Albrecht

Event Argument extraction refers to the task of extracting structured information from unstructured text for a particular event of interest. The existing works exhibit poor capabilities to extract causal event arguments like Reason and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Debanjana Kar , Sudeshna Sarkar , Pawan Goyal

Entities and events are crucial to natural language reasoning and common in procedural texts. Existing work has focused either exclusively on entity state tracking (e.g., whether a pan is hot) or on event reasoning (e.g., whether one would…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Li Zhang , Hainiu Xu , Yue Yang , Shuyan Zhou , Weiqiu You , Manni Arora , Chris Callison-Burch