Unsupervised Deep Structured Semantic Models for Commonsense Reasoning

Commonsense reasoning is fundamental to natural language understanding. While traditional methods rely heavily on human-crafted features and knowledge bases, we explore learning commonsense knowledge from a large amount of raw text via unsupervised learning. We propose two neural network models based on the Deep Structured Semantic Models (DSSM) framework to tackle two classic commonsense reasoning tasks, Winograd Schema challenges (WSC) and Pronoun Disambiguation (PDP). Evaluation shows that the proposed models effectively capture contextual information in the sentence and co-reference information between pronouns and nouns, and achieve significant improvement over previous state-of-the-art approaches.

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Datasets


Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Natural Language Understanding PDP60 UDSSM-II Accuracy 75 # 5
Natural Language Understanding PDP60 UDSSM-I (ensemble) Accuracy 76.7 # 4
Natural Language Understanding PDP60 DSSM Accuracy 75.0 # 5
Natural Language Understanding PDP60 UDSSM-II (ensemble) Accuracy 78.3 # 2
Coreference Resolution Winograd Schema Challenge UDSSM-II (ensemble) Accuracy 62.4 # 50
Coreference Resolution Winograd Schema Challenge UDSSM-I (ensemble) Accuracy 57.1 # 65
Coreference Resolution Winograd Schema Challenge UDSSM-II Accuracy 59.2 # 60
Coreference Resolution Winograd Schema Challenge UDSSM-I Accuracy 54.5 # 72

Results from Other Papers


Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Rank Source Paper Compare
Coreference Resolution Winograd Schema Challenge DSSM Accuracy 63.0 # 47

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