Analysis of Identifying Linguistic Phenomena for Recognizing Inference in Text

[[abstract]]Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) is a task in which two text fragments are processed by system to determine whether the meaning of hypothesis is entailed from another text or not. Although a considerable number of studies have been made on recognizing textual entailment, little is known about the power of linguistic phenomenon for recognizing inference in text. The objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive analysis of identifying linguistic phenomena for recognizing inference in text (RITE). In this paper, we focus on RITE-VAL System Validation subtask and propose a model by using an analysis of identifying linguistic phenomena for Recognizing Inference in Text (RITE) using the development dataset of NTCIR-11 RITE-VAL subtask. The experimental results suggest that well identified linguistic phenomenon category could enhance the accuracy of textual entailment system.[[sponsorship]]IEEE[[incitationindex]]EI[[conferencetype]]國際[[conferencedate]]20140813~20140815[[booktype]]電子版[[iscallforpapers]]Y[[conferencelocation]]San Francisco, California, US

IMTKU Textual Entailment System for Recognizing Inference in Text at NTCIR-11

[[abstract]]In this paper, we describe the IMTKU (Information Management at TamKang University) textual entailment system for recognizing inference in text at NTCIR-11 RITE-VAL (Recognizing Inference in Text). We proposed a textual entailment system using statistics approach that integrate semantic features and machine learning techniques for recognizing inference in text at NTCIR-11 RITEVAL task. We submitted 3 official runs for BC, MC subtask. In NTCIR-11 RITE-VAL task, IMTKU team achieved 0.2911 in the CT-MC subtask, 0.5275 in the CT-BC subtask; 0.2917 in the CSMC subtask, 0.5325 in the CS-BC subtask.[[incitationindex]]EI[[conferencetype]]國際[[conferencedate]]20141209~20141212[[booktype]]紙本[[iscallforpapers]]Y[[conferencelocation]]Tokyo, Japa

Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment and Applications

Textual Entailment (TE) has been proposed as a generic framework for modeling language variability. The great potential of integrating (monolingual) TE recognition components into NLP architectures has been reported in several areas, such as question answering, information retrieval, information extraction and document summarization. Mainly due to the absence of cross-lingual TE (CLTE) recognition components, similar improvements have not yet been achieved in any corresponding cross-lingual application. In this thesis, we propose and investigate Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment (CLTE) as a semantic relation between two text portions in dierent languages. We present dierent practical solutions to approach this problem by i) bringing CLTE back to the monolingual scenario, translating the two texts into the same language; and ii) integrating machine translation and TE algorithms and techniques. We argue that CLTE can be a core tech- nology for several cross-lingual NLP applications and tasks. Experiments on dierent datasets and two interesting cross-lingual NLP applications, namely content synchronization and machine translation evaluation, conrm the eectiveness of our approaches leading to successful results. As a complement to the research in the algorithmic side, we successfully explored the creation of cross-lingual textual entailment corpora by means of crowdsourcing, as a cheap and replicable data collection methodology that minimizes the manual work done by expert annotators