%0 Conference Proceedings %T Commonsense inference in human-robot communication %A Huminski, Aliaksandr %A Ng, Yan Bin %A Kwok, Kenneth %A Bond, Francis %Y Ostermann, Simon %Y Zhang, Sheng %Y Roth, Michael %Y Clark, Peter %S Proceedings of the First Workshop on Commonsense Inference in Natural Language Processing %D 2019 %8 November %I Association for Computational Linguistics %C Hong Kong, China %F huminski-etal-2019-commonsense %X Natural language communication between machines and humans are still constrained. The article addresses a gap in natural language understanding about actions, specifically that of understanding commands. We propose a new method for commonsense inference (grounding) of high-level natural language commands into specific action commands for further execution by a robotic system. The method allows to build a knowledge base that consists of a large set of commonsense inferences. The preliminary results have been presented. %R 10.18653/v1/D19-6013 %U https://aclanthology.org/D19-6013 %U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D19-6013 %P 104-112