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CICERO: A Dataset for Contextualized Commonsense Inference in Dialogues
Deepanway Ghosal, Siqi Shen, Navonil Majumder, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
This paper addresses the problem of dialogue reasoning with contextualized commonsense inference. We curate CICERO, a dataset of dyadic conversations with five types of utterance-level reasoning-based inferences: cause, subsequent event, prerequisite, motivation, and emotional reaction. The dataset contains 53,105 of such inferences from 5,672 dialogues. We use this dataset to solve relevant generative and discriminative tasks: generation of cause and subsequent event; generation of prerequisite, motivation, and listener's emotional reaction; and selection of plausible alternatives. Our results ascertain the value of such dialogue-centric commonsense knowledge datasets. It is our hope that CICERO will open new research avenues into commonsense-based dialogue reasoning.
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
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| Answer Generation | CICERO | T5-large pre-trained on GLUCOSE | ROUGE | 0.2980 | #1 of 2 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Answer Generation | CICERO | T5-large | ROUGE | 0.2947 | #2 of 2 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Answer Selection | CICERO | T5-large | Exact Match | 77.68 | #1 of 2 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Answer Selection | CICERO | Unified QA | Exact Match | 77.51 | #2 of 2 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Generative Question Answering | CICERO | T5-large pre-trained on GLUCOSE | ROUGE | 0.2980 | #1 of 4 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Generative Question Answering | CICERO | T5-large | ROUGE | 0.2946 | #2 of 4 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Generative Question Answering | CICERO | T5-large pre-trained on COMET | ROUGE | 0.2878 | #3 of 4 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Generative Question Answering | CICERO | BART | ROUGE | 0.2837 | #4 of 4 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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