UnCommonSense: Informative Negative Knowledge about Everyday Concepts

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Contributors

  • Hiba Arnaout - , Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Author)
  • Simon Razniewski - , Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Author)
  • Gerhard Weikum - , Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Author)
  • Jeff Z. Pan - , University of Edinburgh (Author)

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

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCIKM 2022 - Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages37-46
Number of pages10
ISBN (electronic)9781450392365
Publication statusPublished - 17 Oct 2022
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

SeriesCIKM: Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
ISSN2155-0751

Conference

Title31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Abbreviated titleCIKM 2022
Conference number31
Duration17 - 21 October 2022
LocationWestin Peachtree Plaza Hotel
CityAtlanta
CountryUnited States of America

External IDs

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

Keywords

Keywords

  • commonsense, knowledge base, negation