How far have we come in giving our NLU systems common sense?

Abstract: Commonsense reasoning has been a long-established area in AI for more than three decades. Despite the lack of much ongoing effort in this area after the 80s, recently there has been a renewed interest in the AI community for giving machines common sense, acknowledging it as the holy grail of AI. With the tremendous recent progress in natural language understanding (NLU), the lack of commonsense reasoning capabilities of NLU systems is more evident than ever. In this talk, I’ll …

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