Refined Commonsense Knowledge From Large-Scale Web Contents

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Contributors

  • Tuan Phong Nguyen - , Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Author)
  • Simon Razniewski - , Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Author)
  • Julien Romero - , Institut Mines-Télécom (Author)
  • Gerhard Weikum - , Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Author)

Abstract

Commonsense knowledge (CSK) about concepts and their properties is helpful for AI applications. Prior works, such as ConceptNet, have compiled large CSK collections. However, they are restricted in their expressiveness to subject-predicate-object (SPO) triples with simple concepts for S and strings for P and O. This paper presents a method called Ascent++ to automatically build a large-scale knowledge base (KB) of CSK assertions, with refined expressiveness and both better precision and recall than prior works. Ascent++ goes beyond SPO triples by capturing composite concepts with subgroups and aspects, and by refining assertions with semantic facets. The latter is essential to express the temporal and spatial validity of assertions and further qualifiers. Furthermore, Ascent++ combines open information extraction (OpenIE) with judicious cleaning and ranking by typicality and saliency scores. For high coverage, our method taps into the large-scale crawl C4 with broad web contents. The evaluation with human judgments shows the superior quality of the Ascent++ KB, and an extrinsic evaluation for QA-support tasks underlines the benefits of Ascent++. A web interface, data, and code can be accessed at https://ascentpp.mpi-inf.mpg.de/.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8431-8447
Number of pages17
JournalIEEE transactions on knowledge and data engineering
Volume35
Issue number8
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2023
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-5410-218X/work/185318188

Keywords

Keywords

  • Commonsense knowledge, knowledge base construction