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Neuro-symbolic Commonsense Social Reasoning

arXiv 2303.08264 ↗First posted 14 Mar 2023cs.AIcited by 5

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Abstract (arXiv)

Social norms underlie all human social interactions, yet formalizing and reasoning with them remains a major challenge for AI systems. We present a novel system for taking social rules of thumb (ROTs) in natural language from the Social Chemistry 101 dataset and converting them to first-order logic where reasoning is performed using a neuro-symbolic theorem prover. We accomplish this in several steps. First, ROTs are converted into Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), which is a graphical representation of the concepts in a sentence, and align the AMR with RoBERTa embeddings. We then generate alternate simplified versions of the AMR via a novel algorithm, recombining and merging embeddings for added robustness against different wordings of text, and incorrect AMR parses. The AMR is then converted into first-order logic, and is queried with a neuro-symbolic theorem prover. The goal of this paper is to develop and evaluate a neuro-symbolic method which performs explicit reasoning about social situations in a logical form.

Key facts. Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 17 of its 31 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 14 Mar 2023.

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Citing papers per year: 2024: 2; 2025: 1; 2026: 2.

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  1. 2025Neuro-Symbolic AI in 2024: A Systematic Reviewcited by 38
  2. 2024Identification of Entailment and Contradiction Relations for Natural Language Argumentation: A Neurosymbolic Approachcited by 2
  3. 2024Understanding Enthymemes in Argument Maps: Bridging Argument Mining and Logic-based Argumentationcited by 2
  4. 2026Making Implicit Premises Explicit in Logical Understanding of Enthymemescited by 2
  5. 2026Identifying Implicit Premises for Logical Reconstruction of Argument Graphscited by 0