Geology

Folk psychology

Cognitive science

Mental model

Oceanography

Epistemology

Baseline (sea)

Knowledge representation and reasoning

Philosophy

Cognitive psychology

Artificial intelligence

Psychology

Psychological research

Commonsense reasoning

Narrative

Natural language processing

Data science

Annotation

Computer science

Linguistics

Simple (philosophy)

Commonsense knowledge

Reading (process)

Social psychology

Understanding a narrative requires reading between the lines and reasoning about the unspoken but obvious implications about events and people's mental states — a capability that is trivial for humans but remarkably hard for machines. To facilitate research addressing this challenge, we introduce a new annotation framework to explain naive psychology of story characters as fully-specified chains of mental states with respect to motivations and emotional reactions. Our work presents a new large-scale dataset with rich low-level annotations and establishes baseline performance on several new tasks, suggesting avenues for future research.

Modeling Naive Psychology of Characters in Simple Commonsense Stories