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Multiview Contextual Commonsense Inference: A New Dataset and Task

6 Oct 2022arXiv:2210.02890archive 2025-07-28

Siqi Shen, Deepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Henry Lim, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria

Contextual commonsense inference is the task of generating various types of explanations around the events in a dyadic dialogue, including cause, motivation, emotional reaction, and others. Producing a coherent and non-trivial explanation requires awareness of the dialogue's structure and of how an event is grounded in the context. In this work, we create CICEROv2, a dataset consisting of 8,351 instances from 2,379 dialogues, containing multiple human-written answers for each contextual commonsense inference question, representing a type of explanation on cause, subsequent event, motivation, and emotional reaction. We show that the inferences in CICEROv2 are more semantically diverse than other contextual commonsense inference datasets. To solve the inference task, we propose a collection of pre-training objectives, including concept denoising and utterance sorting to prepare a pre-trained model for the downstream contextual commonsense inference task. Our results show that the proposed pre-training objectives are effective at adapting the pre-trained T5-Large model for the contextual commonsense inference task.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Multiview Contextual Commonsense Inference CICERO DIALECT Accuracy 27.54 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Multiview Contextual Commonsense Inference CICERO T5-large Accuracy 25.66 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Multiview Contextual Commonsense Inference CICEROv2 DIALECT Accuracy 73.80 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Multiview Contextual Commonsense Inference CICEROv2 T5-large Accuracy 71.95 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report

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