# Social IQA

### Paper

Title: Social IQA: Commonsense Reasoning about Social Interactions

Abstract: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09728

> We introduce Social IQa, the first largescale benchmark for commonsense reasoning about social situations. Social IQa contains 38,000 multiple choice questions for probing emotional and social intelligence in a variety of everyday situations (e.g., Q: "Jordan wanted to tell Tracy a secret, so Jordan leaned towards Tracy. Why did Jordan do this?" A: "Make sure no one else could hear"). Through crowdsourcing, we collect commonsense questions along with correct and incorrect answers about social interactions, using a new framework that mitigates stylistic artifacts in incorrect answers by asking workers to provide the right answer to a different but related question. Empirical results show that our benchmark is challenging for existing question-answering models based on pretrained language models, compared to human performance (>20% gap). Notably, we further establish Social IQa as a resource for transfer learning of commonsense knowledge, achieving state-of-the-art performance on multiple commonsense reasoning tasks (Winograd Schemas, COPA).

Homepage: https://allenai.org/data/socialiqa


### Citation

```
@inproceedings{sap2019social,
  title={Social IQa: Commonsense Reasoning about Social Interactions},
  author={Sap, Maarten and Rashkin, Hannah and Chen, Derek and Le Bras, Ronan and Choi, Yejin},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)},
  pages={4463--4473},
  year={2019}
}
```

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