UnCommonSense in Action! Informative Negations for Commonsense Knowledge Bases

Hiba Arnaout, Tuan-Phong Nguyen, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum

Abstract: Knowledge bases about commonsense knowledge i.e., CSKBs, are crucial in applications such as search and question answering. Prominent CSKBs mostly focus on positive statements. In this paper we show that materializing important negations increases the usability of CSKBs. We present Uncommonsense, a web portal to explore informative negations about everyday concepts: (i) in a research-focused interface, users get a glimpse into results-per-steps of the methodology; (ii) in a trivia interface, users can browse fun negative trivia about concepts of their choice; and (iii) in a query interface, users can submit triple-pattern queries with explicit negated relations and compare results with significantly less relevant answers from the positive-only baseline. It can be accessed at:https://uncommonsense.mpi-inf.mpg.de/.