Abstract
In this paper we propose a framework for the definition and combination of specialized entailment engines, each of which able to deal with a certain aspect of language variability. Such engines are based on transformations, and we define them taking advantage of the conceptual and formal tools available from an extended model of Natural Logic (NL). Given a T,H pair, each engine performs atomic edits to solve the specific linguistic phenomenon it is built to deal with, and assigns an entailment relation as the output of this operation. NL mechanisms of semantic relations composition are then applied to join the output of each single engine, in order to obtain a global entailment judgment for a pair.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Bentivogli, L., Magnini, B., Dagan, I., Dang, H.T., Giampiccolo, D.: The Fifth PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge. In: Proceedings of the TAC 2009 Workshop on Textual Entailment, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 17 (2009)
Bentivogli, L., Cabrio, E., Dagan, I., Giampiccolo, D., Lo Leggio, M., Magnini, B.: Building Textual Entailment Specialized Data Sets: a Methodology for Isolating Linguistic Phenomena Relevant to Inference. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Valletta, Malta, May 19-21 (2010)
Cabrio, E., Magnini, B.: Toward Qualitative Evaluation of Textual Entailment Systems. In: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010: Posters), Beijing, China, August 23-27 (2010)
Chambers, N., Cer, D., Grenager, T., Hall, D., Kiddon, C., MacCartney, B., Ramage, D., Yeh, E., Manning, C.D.: Learning Alignments and Leveraging Natural Logic. In: Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing, Prague, Czech Republic, June 28-29 (2007)
Cooper, R., et al.: Using the framework. Technical Report LRE 62-051 D-16, The FraCaS Consortium (1996), http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~fracas/
Dagan, I., Glickman, O.: Probabilistic Textual Entailment: Generic Applied Modeling of Language Variability. In: Proceedings of the PASCAL Workshop on Learning Methods for Text Understanding and Mining, Grenoble, France, January 26-29 (2004)
Dagan, I., Dolan, B., Magnini, B., Roth, D.: Recognizing textual entailment: Rational, evaluation and approaches. In: Natural Language Engineering (JNLE), October 2009, vol. 15, Special Issue 04, pp. i-xvii. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2009)
Frege, G.: Über Sinn und Bedeutung. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philosophische Kritik 100, 25–50 (1892)
Giampiccolo, D., Magnini, B., Dagan, I., Dolan, B.: The Third PASCAL Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge. In: Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing. Prague, Czech Republic, June 28-29 (2007)
Giampiccolo, D., Trang Dang, H., Magnini, B., Dagan, I., Cabrio, E.: The Fourth PASCAL Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge. In: Proceedings of the TAC 2008 Workshop on Textual Entailment. Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 17 (2008)
Lakoff, G.: Linguistics and natural logic. Synthese 22, 151–271 (1970)
Kouylekov, M., Magnini, B.: Tree Edit Distance for Textual Entailment. In: Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Conference (RALNP 2005), Borovets, Bulgaria, September 21-23 (2005)
Magnini, B., Cabrio, E.: Combining Specialized Entailment Engines. In: Proceedings of the 4th Language & Technology Conference (LTC 2009), Poznan, Poland, November 6-8 (2009)
MacCartney, B., Manning, C.D.: Natural Logic for Textual Inference. In: Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, June 23-30 (2007)
MacCartney, B., Manning, C.D.: Modeling semantic containment and exclusion in natural language inference. In: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008), Manchester, UK, August 18-22 (2008)
MacCartney, B., Manning, C.D.: An extended model of natural logic. In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-8), Tilburg, The Netherlands, January 7-9 (2009)
Nairn, R., Condoravdi, C., Karttunen, L.: Computing relative polarity for textual inference. In: Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-5), Buxton, UK, April 20-21 (2006)
Sammons, M., Vydiswaran, V.G.V., Roth, D.: Ask Not What Textual Entailment Can Do for You. In: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010), Uppsala, Sweden, July 11-16 (2010)
Sánchez Valencia, V.: Studies on Natural Logic and Categorial Grammar. PhD Thesis, University of Amsterdam (1991)
Szpektor, I., Shnarch, E., Dagan, I.: Instance-based evaluation of entailment rule acquisition. In: Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, June 23-30 (2007)
Van Benthem, J.: The semantics of variety in categorial grammar. In: Buszkowski, W., Marciszewski, W., Van Benthem, J. (eds.) Categorial Grammar, pp. 33–35. John Benjamins, Amsterdam (1988)
Van Benthem, J.: A brief history of natural logic. Technical Report PP-2008-05, Institute for Logic, Language & Computation (2008), http://www.illc.uva.nl/Publications/ResearchReports/PP-2008-05.text.pdf
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Cabrio, E., Magnini, B. (2011). Defining Specialized Entailment Engines Using Natural Logic Relations. In: Vetulani, Z. (eds) Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics. LTC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6562. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20095-3_25
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20095-3_25
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-20094-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-20095-3
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)