Towards cross-lingual textual entailment

  • Authors:
  • Yashar Mehdad;Matteo Negri;Marcello Federico

  • Affiliations:
  • FBK-Irst, Trento, Italy and University of Trento, Trento, Italy;FBK-Irst, Trento, Italy;FBK-Irst, Trento, Italy

  • Venue:
  • HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper investigates cross-lingual textual entailment as a semantic relation between two text portions in different languages, and proposes a prospective research direction. We argue that cross-lingual textual entailment (CLTE) can be a core technology for several cross-lingual NLP applications and tasks. Through preliminary experiments, we aim at proving the feasibility of the task, and providing a reliable baseline. We also introduce new applications for CLTE that will be explored in future work.