Textual entailment recognition based on dependency analysis and WordNet

The Recognizing Textual Entailment System shown here is based on the use of a broad-coverage parser to extract dependency relationships; in addition, WordNet relations are used to recognize entailment at the lexical level. The work investigates whether the mapping of dependency trees from text and h...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Herrera de la Cruz, Jesús, Peñas, Anselmo, Verdejo, Felisa
Format: book part
Publication Date:2006
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repository:Docta Complutense
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/53616
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/53616
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Reconocimiento de implicación textual
Análisis de dependencias
Recognising textual entailment
Dependency analysis
Inteligencia artificial (Informática)
Lingüística
1203.04 Inteligencia Artificial
57 Lingüística
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Summary:The Recognizing Textual Entailment System shown here is based on the use of a broad-coverage parser to extract dependency relationships; in addition, WordNet relations are used to recognize entailment at the lexical level. The work investigates whether the mapping of dependency trees from text and hypothesis give better evidence of entailment than the matching of plain text alone. While the use of WordNet seems to improve system's performance, the notion of mapping between trees here explored (inclusion) shows no improvement, suggesting that other notions of tree mappings should be explored such as tree edit distances or tree alignment distances.