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Commonsense Reasoning in NLP

Commonsense reasoning in NLP refers to the capacity of a language model or inference system to draw on implicit, world-knowledge facts that humans take for granted — facts not stated in the text — to answer questions, complete stories, or interpret dialogue. Landmark benchmarks formalising the task include ATOMIC (Sap et al., 2019), an if-then commonsense knowledge graph, and HellaSwag (Zellers et al., 2019), a sentence-completion challenge that exposed gaps in machine understanding of everyday events.

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Sources

  1. Sap, M. et al. (2019). ATOMIC: An Atlas of Machine Commonsense for If-Then Reasoning. AAAI. link
  2. Zellers, R. et al. (2019). HellaSwag: Can a Machine Really Finish Your Sentence? ACL. link

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