MultiCOMET–Multilingual Commonsense Description

This paper presents an approach to generating multilingual commonsense descriptions of sentences provided in natural language. We have expanded on an existing approach to automatic knowledge base construction in English to work on different languages. The proposed approach has been utilized to develop MultiCOMET, a publicly available online service for generating multilingual commonsense descriptions. Our experimental results show that the proposed approach is suitable for generating commonsense description for natural languages with Latin script. Comparing performance on Slovenian sentences to the English original, we have achieved precision as high as 0.7 for certain types of descriptors.