LOGICAL-COMMONSENSEQA: A Benchmark for Logical Commonsense Reasoning

Obed Junias, Maria Leonor Pacheco


Abstract
Commonsense reasoning often involves evaluating multiple plausible interpretations rather than selecting a single atomic answer, yet most benchmarks rely on single-label evaluation, obscuring whether statements are jointly plausible, mutually exclusive, or jointly implausible. We introduce LOGICAL-COMMONSENSEQA, a benchmark that reframes commonsense reasoning as logical composition over pairs of atomic statements using plausibility-level operators (AND, OR and NEITHER/NOR). Evaluating instruction-tuned, reasoning-specialized, and fine-tuned models under zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting, we find that while models perform reasonably on conjunctive and moderately on disjunctive reasoning, performance degrades sharply on negation-based questions. LOGICAL-COMMONSENSEQA exposes fundamental reasoning limitations and provides a controlled framework for advancing compositional commonsense reasoning.
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2026.acl-short.61
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
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July
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2026
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San Diego, California, United States
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Maria Liakata, Viviane P. Moreira, Jiajun Zhang, David Jurgens
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Obed Junias and Maria Leonor Pacheco. 2026. LOGICAL-COMMONSENSEQA: A Benchmark for Logical Commonsense Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 746–758, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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