ATOMIC: An Atlas of Machine Commonsense for If-Then Reasoning

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We present ATOMIC, an atlas of everyday commonsense reasoning, organized through 877k textual descriptions of inferential knowledge.

• Compared to existing resources that center around taxonomic knowledge, ATOMIC focuses on inferential knowledge organized as typed if-then relations with variables (e.g., "if X pays Y a compliment, then Y will likely return the compliment").
• We propose nine if-then relation types to distinguish causes vs.
• effects, agents vs.