COPA-SSE: Semi-structured Explanations for Commonsense Reasoning

Ana Brassard, Benjamin Heinzerling, Pride Kavumba, Kentaro Inui

Abstract
We present Semi-Structured Explanations for COPA (COPA-SSE), a new crowdsourced dataset of 9,747 semi-structured, English common sense explanations for Choice of Plausible Alternatives (COPA) questions. The explanations are formatted as a set of triple-like common sense statements with ConceptNet relations but freely written concepts. This semi-structured format strikes a balance between the high quality but low coverage of structured data and the lower quality but high coverage of free-form crowdsourcing. Each explanation also includes a set of human-given quality ratings. With their familiar format, the explanations are geared towards commonsense reasoners operating on knowledge graphs and serve as a starting point for ongoing work on improving such systems. The dataset is available at https://github.com/a-brassard/copa-sse.
Anthology ID:
2022.lrec-1.425
Volume:
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
June
Year:
2022
Address:
Marseille, France
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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3994–4000
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.425
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Cite (ACL):
Ana Brassard, Benjamin Heinzerling, Pride Kavumba, and Kentaro Inui. 2022. COPA-SSE: Semi-structured Explanations for Commonsense Reasoning. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3994–4000, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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COPA-SSE: Semi-structured Explanations for Commonsense Reasoning (Brassard et al., LREC 2022)
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Code
 a-brassard/copa-sse
Data
COPA-SSE, COPA, ConceptNet
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