In Search of the Long-Tail: Systematic Generation of Long-Tail Inferential Knowledge via Logical Rule Guided Search (2024.emnlp-main)
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Huihan Li, Yuting Ning, Zeyi Liao, Siyuan Wang, Xiang Li, Ximing Lu, Wenting Zhao, Faeze Brahman, Yejin Choi, Xiang Ren
| Challenge: | Logic-Induced-Knowledge-Search (LINK) is a framework for generating factually-correct yet long-tail inferential knowledge. |
| Approach: | They introduce a framework to obtain factually-correct yet long-tail inferential statements using variable-wise prompting grounded on symbolic rules. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework is able to obtain factually-correct yet long-tail inferential statements while ensuring factual correctness. |
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