Towards Generalizable Neuro-Symbolic Systems for Commonsense Question Answering

Kaixin Ma, Jonathan Francis, Quanyang Lu, Eric Nyberg, Alessandro Oltramari


Abstract
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 increased performance, only when models are either pre-trained with additional information or when domain-specific heuristics are used, without any special consideration regarding the knowledge resource type. In this paper, we perform a survey of recent commonsense QA methods and we provide a systematic analysis of popular knowledge resources and knowledge-integration methods, across benchmarks from multiple commonsense datasets. Our results and analysis show that attention-based injection seems to be a preferable choice for knowledge integration and that the degree of domain overlap, between knowledge bases and datasets, plays a crucial role in determining model success.
Anthology ID:
D19-6003
Volume:
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Commonsense Inference in Natural Language Processing
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November
Year:
2019
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Hong Kong, China
Editors:
Simon Ostermann, Sheng Zhang, Michael Roth, Peter Clark
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WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
22–32
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D19-6003
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-6003
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Kaixin Ma, Jonathan Francis, Quanyang Lu, Eric Nyberg, and Alessandro Oltramari. 2019. Towards Generalizable Neuro-Symbolic Systems for Commonsense Question Answering. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Commonsense Inference in Natural Language Processing, pages 22–32, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Towards Generalizable Neuro-Symbolic Systems for Commonsense Question Answering (Ma et al., 2019)
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Data
CommonsenseQAConceptNetHellaSwag