10 papers
MultiTalk: A Highly-Branching Dialog Testbed for Diverse Conversations
Yao Dou, Maxwell Forbes, Ari Holtzman +1
We study conversational dialog in which there are many possible responses to a given history. We present the MultiTalk Dataset, a corpus of over 320,000 sentences of written conver…
Moral Stories: Situated Reasoning about Norms, Intents, Actions, and their Consequences
Denis Emelin, Ronan Le Bras, Jena D. Hwang +2
In social settings, much of human behavior is governed by unspoken rules of conduct. For artificial systems to be fully integrated into social environments, adherence to such norms…
Social Chemistry 101: Learning to Reason about Social and Moral Norms
Maxwell Forbes, Jena D. Hwang, Vered Shwartz +2
Social norms -- the unspoken commonsense rules about acceptable social behavior -- are crucial in understanding the underlying causes and intents of people's actions in narratives.…
Paragraph-level Commonsense Transformers with Recurrent Memory
Saadia Gabriel, Chandra Bhagavatula, Vered Shwartz +3
Human understanding of narrative texts requires making commonsense inferences beyond what is stated explicitly in the text. A recent model, COMET, can generate such implicit common…
Neural Naturalist: Generating Fine-Grained Image Comparisons
Maxwell Forbes, Christine Kaeser-Chen, Piyush Sharma +1
We introduce the new Birds-to-Words dataset of 41k sentences describing fine-grained differences between photographs of birds. The language collected is highly detailed, while rema…
Do Neural Language Representations Learn Physical Commonsense?
Maxwell Forbes, Ari Holtzman, Yejin Choi
Humans understand language based on the rich background knowledge about how the physical world works, which in turn allows us to reason about the physical world through language. I…