Commonsense Entailment Graph Construction and Reasoning
Project Description
Commonsense reasoning has long been one of the core problems in NLP, with the rapid progress of commonsense knowledge bases (CSKB), such as ASER, Probase, and ConceptNet. However, previous works ignored linguistic entailments among commonsense knowledge, which measure semantically including/being included a relationship between sentences or assertions. For example, "I drink cola" entails "I drink beverage." Such entailment relations are very intuitive in human cognition but missed in current CSKBs. Linguistic entailments can enrich current CSKB with a hierarchical structure and equip language models intelligence in a cognitive way.
Supervisor
SONG Yangqiu
Quota
5
Course type
UROP1000
UROP1100
UROP2100
UROP3100
UROP3200
UROP4100
Applicant's Roles
Help Ph.D. students to prepare baseline models, design algorithms, and write papers.
Applicant's Learning Objectives
Know the details of building CSKB, and fine-tune current LLMs to learn commonsense knowledge. Also, get more experience in defining a research topic, conducting research on this topic, and academic writing.
Complexity of the project
Challenging