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Conversational Multi-Hop Reasoning with Neural Commonsense Knowledge and Symbolic Logic Rules

Arabshahi, Forough
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Lee, Jennifer
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Bosselut, Antoine  
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January 1, 2021
2021 Conference On Empirical Methods In Natural Language Processing (Emnlp 2021)
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

One of the challenges faced by conversational agents is their inability to identify unstated presumptions of their users' commands, a task trivial for humans due to their common sense. In this paper, we propose a zeroshot commonsense reasoning system for conversational agents in an attempt to achieve this. Our reasoner uncovers unstated presumptions from user commands satisfying a general template of if-(state), then-(action), because-(goal). Our reasoner uses a state-ofthe-art transformer-based generative commonsense knowledge base (KB) as its source of background knowledge for reasoning. We propose a novel and iterative knowledge query mechanism to extract multi-hop reasoning chains from the neural KB which uses symbolic logic rules to significantly reduce the search space. Similar to any KBs gathered to date, our commonsense KB is prone to missing knowledge. Therefore, we propose to conversationally elicit the missing knowledge from human users with our novel dynamic question generation strategy, which generates and presents contextualized queries to human users. We evaluate the model with a user study with human users that achieves a 35% higher success rate compared to SOTA.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.588
Web of Science ID

WOS:000860727001036

Author(s)
Arabshahi, Forough
Lee, Jennifer
Bosselut, Antoine  
Choi, Yejin
Mitchell, Tom
Date Issued

2021-01-01

Publisher

ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL

Publisher place

Stroudsburg

Published in
2021 Conference On Empirical Methods In Natural Language Processing (Emnlp 2021)
ISBN of the book

978-1-955917-09-4

Start page

7404

End page

7418

Subjects

Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications

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Linguistics

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Computer Science

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

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NLP  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

Punta Cana, DOMINICAN REP

Nov 07-11, 2021

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November 21, 2022
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/192467
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