title: Fact-driven Logical Reasoning
abstract: Logical reasoning deeply relies on accurate, clearly presented clue forms which are usually modeled as entity-like knowledge in existing studies. However, in real hierarchical reasoning motivated machine reading comprehension (MRC), such one-side modeling are insufficient for those indispensable local complete facts or events when only "global" knowledge is really paid attention to. Thus, in view of language being a complete knowledge/clue carrier, we propose a general formalism to support representing logic units by extracting backbone constituents of the sentence such as the subject-verb-object formed "facts", covering both global and local knowledge pieces that are necessary as the basis for logical reasoning. Beyond building the ad-hoc graphs, we propose a more general and convenient fact-driven approach to construct a supergraph on top of our newly defined fact units, and enhance the supergraph with further explicit guidance of local question and option interactions. Experiments on two challenging logical reasoning MRC benchmarks show that our proposed model, \textsc{Focal Reasoner}, outperforms the baseline models dramatically.
authors: Siru Ouyang Zhuosheng Zhang hai zhao
hIndex: Zhuosheng Zhang 18