UnCommonSense: Informative Negative Knowledge about Everyday Concepts

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Beitragende

  • Hiba Arnaout - , Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (Autor:in)
  • Simon Razniewski - , Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (Autor:in)
  • Gerhard Weikum - , Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (Autor:in)
  • Jeff Z. Pan - , University of Edinburgh (Autor:in)

Abstract

Commonsense knowledge about everyday concepts is an important asset for AI applications, such as question answering and chatbots. Recently, we have seen an increasing interest in the construction of structured commonsense knowledge bases (CSKBs). An important part of human commonsense is about properties that do not apply to concepts, yet existing CSKBs only store positive statements. Moreover, since CSKBs operate under the open-world assumption, absent statements are considered to have unknown truth rather than being invalid. This paper presents the UNCOMMONSENSE framework for materializing informative negative commonsense statements. Given a target concept, comparable concepts are identified in the CSKB, for which a local closed-world assumption is postulated. This way, positive statements about comparable concepts that are absent for the target concept become seeds for negative statement candidates. The large set of candidates is then scrutinized, pruned and ranked by informativeness. Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluations show that our method significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art. A large dataset of informative negations is released as a resource for future research.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelCIKM 2022 - Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Herausgeber (Verlag)Association for Computing Machinery
Seiten37-46
Seitenumfang10
ISBN (elektronisch)9781450392365
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 17 Okt. 2022
Peer-Review-StatusJa
Extern publiziertJa

Publikationsreihe

ReiheCIKM: Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
ISSN2155-0751

Konferenz

Titel31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
KurztitelCIKM 2022
Veranstaltungsnummer31
Dauer17 - 21 Oktober 2022
OrtWestin Peachtree Plaza Hotel
StadtAtlanta
LandUSA/Vereinigte Staaten

Externe IDs

Scopus 85140917439
ORCID /0000-0002-5410-218X/work/185318119

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • commonsense, knowledge base, negation