Toward qualitative evaluation of textual entailment systems

  • Authors:
  • Elena Cabrio;Bernardo Magnini

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Trento;FBK-Irst

  • Venue:
  • COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper presents a methodology for a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of Textual Entailment systems. We take advantage of the decomposition of Text Hypothesis pairs into monothematic pairs, i.e. pairs where only one linguistic phenomenon at a time is responsible for entailment judgment, and propose to run TE systems over such datasets. We show that several behaviours of a system can be explained in terms of the correlation between the accuracy on monothematic pairs and the accuracy on the corresponding original pairs.