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Event2Mind: Commonsense Inference on Events, Intents, and Reactions

arXiv 1805.06939 ↗First posted 17 May 2018cs.CLcited by 82

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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.

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  5. 2021A Survey on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processingcited by 89
  6. 2021On Measures of Biases and Harms in NLPcited by 81
  7. 2022MAVEN-ERE: A Unified Large-scale Dataset for Event Coreference, Temporal, Causal, and Subevent Relation Extractioncited by 65
  8. 2023Natural Language Reasoning, A Surveycited by 61
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  10. 2022NormSAGE: Multi-Lingual Multi-Cultural Norm Discovery from Conversations On-the-Flycited by 48
  11. 2021From LSAT: The Progress and Challenges of Complex Reasoningcited by 43
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  2. 2021Misinfo Reaction Frames: Reasoning about Readers' Reactions to News Headlinescited by 32
  3. 2021Uncovering Implicit Gender Bias in Narratives through Commonsense Inferencecited by 32
  4. 2022Can Prompt Probe Pretrained Language Models? Understanding the Invisible Risks from a Causal Viewcited by 31
  5. 2021Men Are Elected, Women Are Married: Events Gender Bias on Wikipediacited by 30
  6. 2021ASER: Towards Large-scale Commonsense Knowledge Acquisition via Higher-order Selectional Preference over Eventualitiescited by 28
  7. 2023NormDial: A Comparable Bilingual Synthetic Dialog Dataset for Modeling Social Norm Adherence and Violationcited by 24
  8. 2022FolkScope: Intention Knowledge Graph Construction for E-commerce Commonsense Discoverycited by 23
  9. 2022Show Me More Details: Discovering Hierarchies of Procedures from Semi-structured Web Datacited by 22
  10. 2023SocialDial: A Benchmark for Socially-Aware Dialogue Systemscited by 22
  11. 2023COLA: Contextualized Commonsense Causal Reasoning from the Causal Inference Perspectivecited by 22
  12. 2023Sociocultural Norm Similarities and Differences via Situational Alignment and Explainable Textual Entailmentcited by 22
  13. 2024Theory of Mind abilities of Large Language Models in Human-Robot Interaction : An Illusion?cited by 22
  14. 2022Acquiring and Modelling Abstract Commonsense Knowledge via Conceptualizationcited by 17
  15. 2022ROCK: Causal Inference Principles for Reasoning about Commonsense Causalitycited by 16
  16. 2021From Discourse to Narrative: Knowledge Projection for Event Relation Extractioncited by 14
  17. 2023Modeling Empathic Similarity in Personal Narrativescited by 14
  18. 2022On the Horizon: Interactive and Compositional Deepfakescited by 13
  19. 2023Human-in-the-Loop Schema Inductioncited by 13
  20. 2021COINS: Dynamically Generating COntextualized Inference Rules for Narrative Story Completioncited by 12
  21. 2021A Survey on Deep Learning Event Extraction: Approaches and Applicationscited by 12
  22. 2021CausalBERT: Injecting Causal Knowledge Into Pre-trained Models with Minimal Supervisioncited by 12
  23. 2021Emotion Recognition under Consideration of the Emotion Component Process Modelcited by 12
  24. 2025Towards Online Multi-Modal Social Interaction Understandingcited by 12
  25. 2023ACCENT: An Automatic Event Commonsense Evaluation Metric for Open-Domain Dialogue Systemscited by 11
  26. 2022A Survey of Machine Narrative Reading Comprehension Assessmentscited by 10
  27. 2022SubeventWriter: Iterative Sub-event Sequence Generation with Coherence Controllercited by 10
  28. 2023LLM4Causal: Democratized Causal Tools for Everyone via Large Language Modelcited by 9
  29. 2022What Makes the Story Forward? Inferring Commonsense Explanations as Prompts for Future Event Generationcited by 8
  30. 2022Synopses of Movie Narratives: a Video-Language Dataset for Story Understandingcited by 8
  31. 2022x-enVENT: A Corpus of Event Descriptions with Experiencer-specific Emotion and Appraisal Annotationscited by 8
  32. 2023CRoW: Benchmarking Commonsense Reasoning in Real-World Taskscited by 8
  33. 2022EvEntS ReaLM: Event Reasoning of Entity States via Language Modelscited by 7
  34. 2024Are LLMs Good Annotators for Discourse-level Event Relation Extraction?cited by 7
  35. 2025EnigmaToM: Improve LLMs' Theory-of-Mind Reasoning Capabilities with Neural Knowledge Base of Entity Statescited by 6
  36. 2024The Odyssey of Commonsense Causality: From Foundational Benchmarks to Cutting-Edge Reasoningcited by 5
  37. 2025The Box is in the Pen: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning in Neural Machine Translationcited by 5
  38. 2021Natural Language Processing with Commonsense Knowledge: A Surveycited by 4

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