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Semantic Entailment: Nathaniel Story Ginger Buckbee Greg Lorge Billy Dean

1. Semantic entailment is determining if one sentence (A) implies or infers another sentence (B). 2. There are challenges like paraphrasing, negation, presuppositions, and world knowledge that must be addressed. 3. The document outlines an approach to semantic entailment that uses tools like stemmers, parsers, MALLET classifier, and WordNet to focus on comparable document tasks and test the system by adding more complex features to improve performance.

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Semantic Entailment: Nathaniel Story Ginger Buckbee Greg Lorge Billy Dean

1. Semantic entailment is determining if one sentence (A) implies or infers another sentence (B). 2. There are challenges like paraphrasing, negation, presuppositions, and world knowledge that must be addressed. 3. The document outlines an approach to semantic entailment that uses tools like stemmers, parsers, MALLET classifier, and WordNet to focus on comparable document tasks and test the system by adding more complex features to improve performance.

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Semantic Entailment

Nathaniel Story Ginger Buckbee Greg Lorge Billy Dean

What is it?
Given sentence A, can you infer sentence B?

iTunes software has seen Strong sales for strong sales in Europe. iTunes in Europe

True

Kerry hit Cheney hard on Kerry shot Cheney. his conduct on the war in Iraq.

False

Challenges

Paraphrasing Negation Pre-Suppositions World Knowledge

Juiciness

Paraphrasing Example

There is a cat on the table. A cat is on the table. Different structurally, but infers same meaning

Negation

I am lazy I am not lazy Im not unhappy (Double negation) Im happy Its not unnecessary Its necessary

Pre-Suppositions

Bob doesnt think its raining Bob doesnt know its raining Conversational Pragmatics

Contextual knowledge

World Knowledge

Japan is the only country that currently has an emperor. Columbia doesnt have an emperor. First sentence entails second, but you need to know that Columbia is a country.

Approach

Tools:

Stemmer Parser from Dan Bikels site MALLET (maxEnt classifier) Wordnet (synset)

Focusing on Comparable Document task Start with simple features like word matching, synonym matching Add in more complicated functions like phrase structure comparisons Test the system out, see how it works. Continue adding features to improve performance.

Data

Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge (RTE) training data set

Training set is labeled

Best data set as was used in the European Competition

Evaluation

International Competition Best 60% accuracy Strive for >52% accuracy Comparing against annotated test set Improvement: Print out incorrect ones, then look for mistakes.

The End

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