Abstract
We propose a self-supervised method to solve Pronoun Disambiguation and Winograd Schema Challenge problems. Our approach exploits the characteristic structure of training corpora related to so-called “trigger” words, which are responsible for flipping the answer in pronoun disambiguation. We achieve such commonsense reasoning by constructing pair-wise contrastive auxiliary predictions. To this end, we leverage a mutual exclusive loss regularized by a contrastive margin. Our architecture is based on the recently introduced transformer networks, BERT, that exhibits strong performance on many NLP benchmarks. Empirical results show that our method alleviates the limitation of current supervised approaches for commonsense reasoning. This study opens up avenues for exploiting inexpensive self-supervision to achieve performance gain in commonsense reasoning tasks.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.acl-main.671
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 7517–7523
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.671
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.671
- Cite (ACL):
- Tassilo Klein and Moin Nabi. 2020. Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning for Commonsense Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 7517–7523, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning for Commonsense Reasoning (Klein & Nabi, ACL 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2020.acl-main.671.pdf
- Code
- SAP-samples/acl2020-commonsense + additional community code
- Data
- WSC