Script Knowledge

Script knowledge, the understanding of stereotypical event sequences in common activities, is a crucial area of research in natural language processing, aiming to enable computers to better understand and generate human-like text. Current research focuses on improving multilingual language models' ability to handle diverse writing systems and integrating script knowledge into various tasks, such as event prediction and causal reasoning, often employing techniques like contrastive learning, transliteration, and prompt engineering. These advancements have implications for improving machine translation, dialogue systems, and other applications requiring nuanced understanding of context and common sense reasoning.