We need a “template of understanding”… easy to say… hard to chase by probabilistic methods.
“By systematically asking these questions about all the entities and events in a story, NLP researchers can score systems’ comprehension in a principled way, probing for the world models that systems actually need
- Spatial: Where is everything located and how is it positioned throughout the story?
- Temporal: What events occur and when?
- Causal: How do events lead mechanistically to other events?
- Motivational: Why do the characters decide to take the actions they take?
For example, Pustejovsky came with QUALIA and generative lexicons in a detailed way already 20 years ago.
