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Inferring textual entailment with a probabilistically sound calculus
We introduce a system for textual entailment that is based on a probabilistic model of entailment. The model is defined using a calculus of transformations on dependency trees, which is characterized by the fact that derivations in that calculus preserve the truth only with a certain probability. The calculus is successfully evaluated on the datasets of the PASCAL Challenge on Recognizing Textual Entailment.
@article{6081, title = {Inferring textual entailment with a probabilistically sound calculus}, journal = {Natural Language Engineering}, abstract = {We introduce a system for textual entailment that is based on a probabilistic model of entailment. The model is defined using a calculus of transformations on dependency trees, which is characterized by the fact that derivations in that calculus preserve the truth only with a certain probability. The calculus is successfully evaluated on the datasets of the PASCAL Challenge on Recognizing Textual Entailment.}, volume = {15}, number = {4}, pages = {459-477}, organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft}, school = {Biologische Kybernetik}, month = oct, year = {2009}, slug = {6081}, author = {Harmeling, S.}, month_numeric = {10} }