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MLCW
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An Inference Model for Semantic Entailment in Natural Language
Semantic entailment is the problem of determining if the meaning of a given sentence entails that of another. This is a fundamental problem in natural language understanding that ...
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, Roxana Girju, Vasin Punyaka...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Modeling Semantic Containment and Exclusion in Natural Language Inference
We propose an approach to natural language inference based on a model of natural logic, which identifies valid inferences by their lexical and syntactic features, without full sem...
Bill MacCartney, Christopher D. Manning
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
A Phrase-Based Alignment Model for Natural Language Inference
The alignment problem--establishing links between corresponding phrases in two related sentences--is as important in natural language inference (NLI) as it is in machine translati...
Bill MacCartney, Michel Galley, Christopher D. Man...
CICLING
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Natural Language as the Basis for Meaning Representation and Inference
Abstract. Semantic inference is an important component in many natural language understanding applications. Classical approaches to semantic inference rely on logical representatio...
Ido Dagan, Roy Bar-Haim, Idan Szpektor, Iddo Green...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Towards Conversation Entailment: An Empirical Investigation
While a significant amount of research has been devoted to textual entailment, automated entailment from conversational scripts has received less attention. To address this limita...
Chen Zhang, Joyce Yue Chai