{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/riddlesense-answering-riddle-questions-as","title":"RiddleSense: Reasoning about Riddle Questions Featuring Linguistic Creativity and Commonsense Knowledge","arxiv_id":"2101.00376","date":"2021-01-02","proceeding":"Findings (ACL) 2021 8","authors":["Bill Yuchen Lin","Ziyi Wu","Yichi Yang","Dong-Ho Lee","Xiang Ren"],"abstract":"Question: I have five fingers but I am not alive. What am I? Answer: a glove. Answering such a riddle-style question is a challenging cognitive process, in that it requires complex commonsense reasoning abilities, an understanding of figurative language, and counterfactual reasoning skills, which are all important abilities for advanced natural language understanding (NLU). However, there are currently no dedicated datasets aiming to test these abilities. Herein, we present RiddleSense, a new multiple-choice question answering task, which comes with the first large dataset (5.7k examples) for answering riddle-style commonsense questions. We systematically evaluate a wide range of models over the challenge, and point out that there is a large gap between the best-supervised model and human performance -- suggesting intriguing future research in the direction of higher-order commonsense reasoning and linguistic creativity towards building advanced NLU systems.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00376v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.00376v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"counterfactual-reasoning","task_name":"Counterfactual Reasoning"},{"task_slug":"multiple-choice","task_name":"Multiple-choice"},{"task_slug":"natural-language-understanding","task_name":"Natural Language Understanding"},{"task_slug":"question-answering","task_name":"Question Answering"},{"task_slug":null,"task_name":"counterfactual"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"am","method_name":"AM"}],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"riddle-sense","name":"RiddleSense","full_name":""}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/2101.00376","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2101.00376","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}