Analyzing the Contribution of Commonsense Knowledge Sources for Why-Question Answering
Analyzing the Contribution of Commonsense Knowledge Sources for Why-Question Answering
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2022
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Yash Kumar Lal
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Yash Kumar Lal
Answering questions about why events happen 001 in narratives requires commonsense knowledge 002 that is external to the narrative. What aspects of 003 this knowledge is accessible to large models? 004 What aspects can be made accessible via exter-005 nal commonsense resources? We study these in 006 the context of answering Why questions in the 007 TellMeWhy dataset using COMET as a source 008 of relevant commonsense relations. We ana-009 lyze the relative improvements over a base T5 010 model when (a) increasing the model size, (b) 011 injecting knowledge from COMET as part of 012 the task input, and (c) asking the model to gen-013 erate COMET relation type as an explanation 014 in addition to its answer. Results show that the 015 larger model, as expected, yields substantial 016 improvements over the base. Interestingly, we 017 find that the question specific COMET relations 018 can provide substantial improvements for both 019 base and large models, with additional possible 020 gains when asking the model to also generate 021 COMET relation type. So, we augment a large 022 model with noisy hints from COMET and find 023 that this improves performance on the TellMe-024 Why task. We also develop a simple ontology of 025 knowledge types and analyze the relative cover-026 age of the different models on these categories. 027 Together, these findings suggest potential for 028 methods that can automatically select and inject 029 commonsense from relevant sources. 030