Event2Mind: Commonsense Inference on Events, Intents, and Reactions

Hannah Rashkin, Maarten Sap, Emily Allaway, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi


Abstract
We investigate a new commonsense inference task: given an event described in a short free-form text (“X drinks coffee in the morning”), a system reasons about the likely intents (“X wants to stay awake”) and reactions (“X feels alert”) of the event’s participants. To support this study, we construct a new crowdsourced corpus of 25,000 event phrases covering a diverse range of everyday events and situations. We report baseline performance on this task, demonstrating that neural encoder-decoder models can successfully compose embedding representations of previously unseen events and reason about the likely intents and reactions of the event participants. In addition, we demonstrate how commonsense inference on people’s intents and reactions can help unveil the implicit gender inequality prevalent in modern movie scripts.
Anthology ID:
P18-1043
Volume:
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
July
Year:
2018
Address:
Melbourne, Australia
Editors:
Iryna Gurevych, Yusuke Miyao
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
463–473
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P18-1043
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P18-1043
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Cite (ACL):
Hannah Rashkin, Maarten Sap, Emily Allaway, Noah A. Smith, and Yejin Choi. 2018. Event2Mind: Commonsense Inference on Events, Intents, and Reactions. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 463–473, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Event2Mind: Commonsense Inference on Events, Intents, and Reactions (Rashkin et al., ACL 2018)
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Event2Mind