ASER (activities, states, events, and their relations) is a large-scale eventuality knowledge graph extracted from more than 11-billion-token unstructured textual data.

Data:

• ASER 2.0 [Paper] (2021)
• ASER 1.0 [Paper] (2019)

Talks:

• 2021 April: An Overview of Commonsense Knowledge Graph Construction and Reasoning at HKUST. Presented by Yangqiu Song. [pdf], [ppt]
• 2020 September: NLP with Friends. Commonsense Reasoning from the Angle of Eventualities. Presented by Hongming Zhang. [pdf], [video]
• 2020 Summer: Knowledge Works at Fudan. ASER: Building a Commonsense Knowledge Graph by Higher-order Selectional Preference. Presented by Yangqiu Song. [pdf], [ppt]
• 2019 October: Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). Event-centric Commonsense Reasoning with Structured Knowledge. Presented by Hongming Zhang. [ppt]
• 2019 Summer: ASER: A Large scale Eventuality Knowledge Graph. Presented by Yangqiu Song. [pdf], [ppt]

Publications:

• Hongming Zhang*, Xin Liu*, Haojie Pan*, Haowen Ke, Jiefu Ou, Tianqing Fang, and Yangqiu Song. ASER: Towards Large-scale Commonsense Knowledge Acquisition via Higher-order Selectional Preference over Eventualities. HKUST Technical Report, April 5th, 2021. [pdf]
• Changlong Yu, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, and Wilfred Ng. CoCoLM: COmplex COmmonsense Enhanced Language Model. HKUST Technical Report, 2021. [pdf]
• Tianqing Fang, Hongming Zhang, Weiqi Wang, Yangqiu Song, and Bin He. DISCOS: Bridging the Gap between Discourse Knowledge and Commonsense Knowledge. The Web Conference (WWW), 2021. [pdf]
• Hongming Zhang, Muhao Chen, Haoyu Wang, Yangqiu Song, and Dan Roth. Analogous Process Structure Induction for Sub-event Sequence Prediction. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). 2020. [pdf]
• Changlong Yu, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, Wilfred Ng, and Lifeng Shang . Enriching Large-Scale Eventuality Knowledge Graph with Entailment Relations. Conference on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC). 2020. [pdf]
• Hongming Zhang, Daniel Khashabi, Yangqiu Song, and Dan Roth. TransOMCS: From Linguistic Graphs to Commonsense Knowledge. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). 2020. [pdf]
• Mutian He, Yangqiu Song, Kun Xu, and Yu Dong. On the Role of Conceptualization in Commonsense Knowledge Graph Construction. HKUST Technical Report, March 6th, 2020. [pdf]
• Hongming Zhang*, Xin Liu*, Haojie Pan*, Yangqiu Song, and Cane Wing-Ki Leung. ASER: A Large-scale Eventuality Knowledge Graph. The Web Conference (WWW), 2020. (Previously a Technical Report at HKUST, May 2019) [pdf], [ppt]
• Hongming Zhang, Hantian Ding, and Yangqiu Song. SP-10K: A Large-Scale Evaluation Set for Selectional Preference Acquisition. Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2019. [pdf]