Using discourse commitments to recognize textual entailment

  • Authors:
  • Andrew Hickl

  • Affiliations:
  • Language Computer Corporation, Richardson, Texas

  • Venue:
  • COLING '08 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a new framework for recognizing textual entailment (RTE) which depends on extraction of the set of publicly-held beliefs -- known as discourse commitments -- that can be ascribed to the author of a text (t) or a hypothesis (h). We show that once a set of commitments have been extracted from a t-h pair, the task of recognizing textual entailment is reduced to the identification of the commitments from a t which support the inference of the h. Our system correctly identified entailment relationships in more than 80% of t-h pairs taken from all three of the previous PASCAL RTE Challenges, without the need for additional sources of training data.