Chinese Textual Entailment with Wordnet Semantic and Dependency Syntactic Analysis

Chun Tu and Min-Yuh Day (2013), "Chinese Textual Entailment with Wordnet Semantic and Dependency Syntactic Analysis", 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Empirical Methods for Recognizing Inference in Text (IEEE EM-RITE 2013), August 14, 2013, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI 2013), San Francisco, California, USA, August 14-16, 2013, pp. 69-74.[[abstract]]Recognizing Inference in TExt (RITE) is a task for automatically detecting entailment, paraphrase, and contradiction in texts which addressing major text understanding in information access research areas. In this paper, we proposed a Chinese textual entailment system using Wordnet semantic and dependency syntactic approaches in Recognizing Inference in Text (RITE) using the NTCIR-10 RITE-2 subtask datasets. Wordnet is used to recognize entailment at lexical level. Dependency syntactic approach is a tree edit distance algorithm applied on the dependency trees of both the text and the hypothesis. We thoroughly evaluate our approach using NTCIR-10 RITE-2 subtask datasets. As a result, our system achieved 73.28% on Traditional Chinese Binary-Class (BC) subtask and 74.57% on Simplified Chinese Binary-Class subtask with NTCIR-10 RITE-2 development datasets. Thorough experiments with the text fragments provided by the NTCIR-10 RITE-2 subtask showed that the proposed approach can improve system's overall accuracy.[[sponsorship]]IEEE[[incitationindex]]EI[[conferencetype]]國際[[conferencedate]]20130814~20130816[[booktype]]電子版[[iscallforpapers]]Y[[conferencelocation]]San Francisco, US

A Statistical Approach with Syntactic and Semantic Features for Chinese Textual Entailment

[[abstract]]Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) is a PASCAL/TAC task in which two text fragments are processed by system to determine whether the meaning of hypothesis is entailed from another text or not. In this paper, we proposed a textual entailment system using a statistical approach that integrates syntactic and semantic techniques for Recognizing Inference in Text (RITE) using the NTCIR-9 RITE task and make a comparison between semantic and syntactic features based on their differences. We thoroughly evaluate our approach using subtasks of the NTCIR-9 RITE. As a result, our system achieved 73.28% accuracy on the Chinese Binary-Class (BC) subtask with NTCIR-9 RITE. Thorough experiments with the text fragments provided by the NTCIR-9 RITE task show that the proposed approach can significantly improve system accuracy.[[sponsorship]]IEEE[[incitationindex]]EI[[cooperationtype]]國外[[conferencetype]]國際[[conferencedate]]20120808~20120810[[booktype]]電子版[[iscallforpapers]]Y[[conferencelocation]]Vegas, Nevada, US