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...
The paper presents a new approach to the problem of paraphrase identification. The new approach extends a previously proposed method for the task of textual entailment. The relati...
Vasile Rus, Philip M. McCarthy, Mihai C. Lintean, ...
A large amount of empirically derived world knowledge is essential for many languageprocessing tasks, to create expectations that can help assess plausibility and guide disambigua...
Learning for sentence re-writing is a fundamental task in natural language processing and information retrieval. In this paper, we propose a new class of kernel functions, referre...
Most Web-based Q/A systems work by finding pages that contain an explicit answer to a question. These systems are helpless if the answer has to be inferred from multiple sentences...
Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld