TransOMCS: From Linguistic Graphs to Commonsense Knowledge

TransOMCS: From Linguistic Graphs to Commonsense Knowledge

Hongming Zhang, Daniel Khashabi, Yangqiu Song, Dan Roth

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 4004-4010. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/554

Commonsense knowledge acquisition is a key problem for artificial intelligence. Conventional methods of acquiring commonsense knowledge generally require laborious and costly human annotations, which are not feasible on a large scale. In this paper, we explore a practical way of mining commonsense knowledge from linguistic graphs, with the goal of transferring cheap knowledge obtained with linguistic patterns into expensive commonsense knowledge. The result is a conversion of ASER [Zhang et al., 2020], a large-scale selectional preference knowledge resource, into TransOMCS, of the same representation as ConceptNet [Liu and Singh, 2004] but two orders of magnitude larger. Experimental results demonstrate the transferability of linguistic knowledge to commonsense knowledge and the effectiveness of the proposed approach in terms of quantity, novelty, and quality. TransOMCS is publicly available at: https://github.com/HKUST-KnowComp/TransOMCS.
Keywords:
Natural Language Processing: Knowledge Extraction
Natural Language Processing: Resources and Evaluation