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A Knowledge Hunting Framework for Common Sense Reasoning
Ali Emami, Noelia De La Cruz, Adam Trischler, Kaheer Suleman, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
We introduce an automatic system that achieves state-of-the-art results on the Winograd Schema Challenge (WSC), a common sense reasoning task that requires diverse, complex forms of inference and knowledge. Our method uses a knowledge hunting module to gather text from the web, which serves as evidence for candidate problem resolutions. Given an input problem, our system generates relevant queries to send to a search engine, then extracts and classifies knowledge from the returned results and weighs them to make a resolution. Our approach improves F1 performance on the full WSC by 0.21 over the previous best and represents the first system to exceed 0.5 F1. We further demonstrate that the approach is competitive on the Choice of Plausible Alternatives (COPA) task, which suggests that it is generally applicable.
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coreference Resolution | Winograd Schema Challenge | Knowledge Hunter | Accuracy | 57.1 | #66 of 82 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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