scholarly journals Confidences for Commonsense Reasoning

2021 ◽  
pp. 507-524
Author(s):  
Tanel Tammet ◽  
Dirk Draheim ◽  
Priit Järv
Keyword(s):  
Question Answering ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Order Logic ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Commonsense Reasoning ◽  
Confidence Estimation ◽  
Critical Feature ◽  
Question Answering Systems ◽  
Hybrid Machine ◽  
Different Sources

AbstractCommonsense reasoning has long been considered one of the holy grails of artificial intelligence. Our goal is to develop a logic-based component for hybrid – machine learning plus logic – commonsense question answering systems. A critical feature for the component is estimating the confidence in the statements derived from knowledge bases containing uncertain contrary and supporting evidence obtained from different sources. Instead of computing exact probabilities or designing a new calculus we focus on extending the methods and algorithms used by the existing automated reasoners for full classical first-order logic. The paper presents the CONFER framework and implementation for confidence estimation of derived answers.

scholarly journals CoRg: Commonsense Reasoning Using a Theorem Prover and Machine Learning

10.29007/lt5p ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Siebert ◽  
Frieder Stolzenburg
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Theorem Prover ◽  
Commonsense Reasoning ◽  
Probable Answer ◽  
Everyday Task

Commonsense reasoning is an everyday task that is intuitive for humans but hard to implement for computers. It requires large knowledge bases to get the required data from, although this data is still incomplete or even inconsistent. While machine learning algorithms perform rather well on these tasks, the reasoning process remains a black box. To close this gap, our system CoRg aims to build an explainable and well-performing system, which consists of both an explainable deductive derivation process and a machine learning part. We conduct our experiments on the Copa question-answering benchmark using the ontologies WordNet, Adimen-SUMO, and ConceptNet. The knowledge is fed into the theorem prover Hyper and in the end the conducted models will be analyzed using machine learning algorithms, to derive the most probable answer.

scholarly journals Simulation-Based Approach to Efficient Commonsense Reasoning in Very Large Knowledge Bases

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 1360-1367
Author(s):  
Abhishek Sharma ◽  
Keith M. Goolsbey
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Cognitive Systems ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Commonsense Reasoning ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
Monte Carlo Simulation Technique ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Limited Reasoning

Cognitive systems must reason with large bodies of general knowledge to perform complex tasks in the real world. However, due to the intractability of reasoning in large, expressive knowledge bases (KBs), many AI systems have limited reasoning capabilities. Successful cognitive systems have used a variety of machine learning and axiom selection methods to improve inference. In this paper, we describe a search heuristic that uses a Monte-Carlo simulation technique to choose inference steps. We test the efficacy of this approach on a very large and expressive KB, Cyc. Experimental results on hundreds of queries show that this method is highly effective in reducing inference time and improving question-answering (Q/A) performance.

scholarly journals Introducing External Knowledge to Answer Questions with Implicit Temporal Constraints over Knowledge Base

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Wenqing Wu ◽  
Zhenfang Zhu ◽  
Qiang Lu ◽  
Dianyuan Zhang ◽  
Qiangqiang Guo
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Temporal Information ◽  
Temporal Constraints ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Question Answering Systems ◽  
Natural Language Question ◽  
Applied Knowledge

Knowledge base question answering (KBQA) aims to analyze the semantics of natural language questions and return accurate answers from the knowledge base (KB). More and more studies have applied knowledge bases to question answering systems, and when using a KB to answer a natural language question, there are some words that imply the tense (e.g., original and previous) and play a limiting role in questions. However, most existing methods for KBQA cannot model a question with implicit temporal constraints. In this work, we propose a model based on a bidirectional attentive memory network, which obtains the temporal information in the question through attention mechanisms and external knowledge. Specifically, we encode the external knowledge as vectors, and use additive attention between the question and external knowledge to obtain the temporal information, then further enhance the question vector to increase the accuracy. On the WebQuestions benchmark, our method not only performs better with the overall data, but also has excellent performance regarding questions with implicit temporal constraints, which are separate from the overall data. As we use attention mechanisms, our method also offers better interpretability.

scholarly journals A semi-automatic approach to construct Vietnamese ontology from online text

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bao-An Nguyen ◽  
Don-Lin Yang
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Relation Extraction ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Formal Representation ◽  
Text Documents ◽  
Ontology Construction ◽  
Question Answering Systems

An ontology is an effective formal representation of knowledge used commonly in artificial intelligence, semantic web, software engineering, and information retrieval. In open and distance learning, ontologies are used as knowledge bases for e-learning supplements, educational recommenders, and question answering systems that support students with much needed resources. In such systems, ontology construction is one of the most important phases. Since there are abundant documents on the Internet, useful learning materials can be acquired openly with the use of an ontology.  However, due to the lack of system support for ontology construction, it is difficult to construct self-instructional materials for Vietnamese people. In general, the cost of manual acquisition of ontologies from domain documents and expert knowledge is too high. Therefore, we present a support system for Vietnamese ontology construction using pattern-based mechanisms to discover Vietnamese concepts and conceptual relations from Vietnamese text documents. In this system, we use the combination of statistics-based, data mining, and Vietnamese natural language processing methods to develop concept and conceptual relation extraction algorithms to discover knowledge from Vietnamese text documents. From the experiments, we show that our approach provides a feasible solution to build Vietnamese ontologies used for supporting systems in education.<br /><br />

scholarly journals Core techniques of question answering systems over knowledge bases: a survey

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 529-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Diefenbach ◽  
Vanessa Lopez ◽  
Kamal Singh ◽  
Pierre Maret
Keyword(s):  
Question Answering ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Question Answering Systems

Software architecture of the question-answering subsystem with elements of self-learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (jai2021.26(2)) ◽  
pp. 88-95
Author(s):  
Hlybovets A ◽  
◽  
Tsaruk A ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Question Answering Systems ◽  
Self Learning

Within the framework of this paper, the analysis of software systems of question-answering type and their basic architectures has been carried out. With the development of machine learning technologies, creation of natural language processing (NLP) engines, as well as the rising popularity of virtual personal assistant programs that use the capabilities of speech synthesis (text-to-speech), there is a growing need in developing question-answering systems which can provide personalized answers to users' questions. All modern cloud providers proposed frameworks for organization of question answering systems but still we have a problem with personalized dialogs. Personalization is very important, it can put forward additional demands to a question-answering system’s capabilities to take this information into account while processing users’ questions. Traditionally, a question-answering system (QAS) is developed in the form of an application that contains a knowledge base and a user interface, which provides a user with answers to questions, and a means of interaction with an expert. In this article we analyze modern approaches to architecture development and try to build system from the building blocks that already exist on the market. Main criteria for the NLP modules were: support of the Ukrainian language, natural language understanding, functions of automatic definition of entities (attributes), ability to construct a dialogue flow, quality and completeness of documentation, API capabilities and integration with external systems, possibilities of external knowledge bases integration After provided analyses article propose the detailed architecture of the question-answering subsystem with elements of self-learning in the Ukrainian language. In the work you can find detailed description of main semantic components of the system (architecture components)

scholarly journals Ontology-based Question Answering Systems over Knowledge Bases: A Survey

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wellington Franco ◽  
Caio Viktor ◽  
Artur Oliveira ◽  
Gilvan Maia ◽  
Angelo Brayner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Question Answering ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Question Answering Systems

scholarly journals Declarative Question Answering over Knowledge Bases Containing Natural Language Text with Answer Set Programming

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 3003-3010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arindam Mitra ◽  
Peter Clark ◽  
Oyvind Tafjord ◽  
Chitta Baral
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Answer Set Programming ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Logical Reasoning ◽  
Natural Language Text ◽  
Question Answering Systems ◽  
Logical Representation ◽  
Language Text ◽  
Answer Set

While in recent years machine learning (ML) based approaches have been the popular approach in developing endto-end question answering systems, such systems often struggle when additional knowledge is needed to correctly answer the questions. Proposed alternatives involve translating the question and the natural language text to a logical representation and then use logical reasoning. However, this alternative falters when the size of the text gets bigger. To address this we propose an approach that does logical reasoning over premises written in natural language text. The proposed method uses recent features of Answer Set Programming (ASP) to call external NLP modules (which may be based on ML) which perform simple textual entailment. To test our approach we develop a corpus based on the life cycle questions and showed that Our system achieves up to 18% performance gain when compared to standard MCQ solvers.

An Efficient Semantic Analysis Technique for the Question Answering Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (22) ◽  
pp. 8289-8292
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Mahmoud Ibrahim Alturani ◽  
Mohd Pouzi Bin Hamzah
Keyword(s):  
Question Answering ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Question Answering Systems
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