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Target-guided response generation enables dialogue systems to smoothly transition a conversation from a dialogue context toward a target sentence. Such control is useful for designing dialogue systems that direct a conversation toward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Prakhar Gupta , Harsh Jhamtani , Jeffrey P. Bigham

Recently, large pretrained language models have achieved compelling performance on commonsense benchmarks. Nevertheless, it is unclear what commonsense knowledge the models learn and whether they solely exploit spurious patterns. Feature…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Xingbo Wang , Renfei Huang , Zhihua Jin , Tianqing Fang , Huamin Qu

Recently, utilizing deep neural networks to build the opendomain dialogue models has become a hot topic. However, the responses generated by these models suffer from many problems such as responses not being contextualized and tend to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Mengjuan Liu , Chenyang Liu , Yunfan Yang , Jiang Liu , Mohan Jing

The pre-trained conversational models still fail to capture the implicit commonsense (CS) knowledge hidden in the dialogue interaction, even though they were pre-trained with an enormous dataset. In order to build a dialogue agent with CS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Ye Liu , Wolfgang Maier , Wolfgang Minker , Stefan Ultes

Deep learning models perform poorly on tasks that require commonsense reasoning, which often necessitates some form of world-knowledge or reasoning over information not immediately present in the input. We collect human explanations for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Nazneen Fatema Rajani , Bryan McCann , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

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

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

Abductive reasoning aims to find plausible explanations for an event. This style of reasoning is critical for commonsense tasks where there are often multiple plausible explanations. Existing approaches for abductive reasoning in natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Wenting Zhao , Justin T. Chiu , Claire Cardie , Alexander M. Rush

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

Commonsense reasoning is a critical aspect of human communication. Despite recent advances in conversational AI driven by large language models, commonsense reasoning remains a challenging task. In this work, we introduce SYNDICOM - a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Christopher Richardson , Anirudh Sundar , Larry Heck

Non-extractive commonsense QA remains a challenging AI task, as it requires systems to reason about, synthesize, and gather disparate pieces of information, in order to generate responses to queries. Recent approaches on such tasks show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Kaixin Ma , Jonathan Francis , Quanyang Lu , Eric Nyberg , Alessandro Oltramari

Grounding dialogue on external knowledge and interpreting linguistic patterns in dialogue history context, such as ellipsis, anaphora, and co-references is critical for dialogue comprehension and generation. In this paper, we present a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Deeksha Varshney , Akshara Prabhakar , Asif Ekbal

Language technologies that accurately model the dynamics of events must perform commonsense reasoning. Existing work evaluating commonsense reasoning focuses on making inferences about common, everyday situations. To instead investigate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Wenting Zhao , Justin T Chiu , Jena D. Hwang , Faeze Brahman , Jack Hessel , Sanjiban Choudhury , Yejin Choi , Xiang Lorraine Li , Alane Suhr

Commonsense reasoning is omnipresent in human communications and thus is an important feature for open-domain dialogue systems. However, evaluating commonsense in dialogue systems is still an open challenge. We take the first step by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Sarik Ghazarian , Yijia Shao , Rujun Han , Aram Galstyan , Nanyun Peng

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

In multi-turn dialog, utterances do not always take the full form of sentences \cite{Carbonell1983DiscoursePA}, which naturally makes understanding the dialog context more difficult. However, it is essential to fully grasp the dialog…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiuying Chen , Zhi Cui , Jiayi Zhang , Chen Wei , Jianwei Cui , Bin Wang , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Conditional text generation has been a challenging task that is yet to see human-level performance from state-of-the-art models. In this work, we specifically focus on the Commongen benchmark, wherein the aim is to generate a plausible…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yikang Li , Pulkit Goel , Varsha Kuppur Rajendra , Har Simrat Singh , Jonathan Francis , Kaixin Ma , Eric Nyberg , Alessandro Oltramari

Large language models (LLMs) sometimes demonstrate poor performance on knowledge-intensive tasks, commonsense reasoning is one of them. Researchers typically address these issues by retrieving related knowledge from knowledge graphs or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jiachun Li , Pengfei Cao , Chenhao Wang , Zhuoran Jin , Yubo Chen , Kang Liu , Xiaojian Jiang , Jiexin Xu , Jun Zhao

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

Commonsense explanation generation aims to empower the machine's sense-making capability by generating plausible explanations to statements against commonsense. While this task is easy to human, the machine still struggles to generate…

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