Learning canonical forms of entailment rules

Idan Szpektor, Ido Dagan

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Abstract

We propose a modular approach to paraphrase and entailment-rule learning that addresses the morphosyntactic variability of lexical-syntactic templates. Using an entailment module that captures generic morpho-syntactic regularities, we transform every identified template into a canonical form. This way, statistics from different template variations are accumulated for a single template form. Additionally, morpho-syntactic redundant rules are not acquired. This scheme also yields more informative evaluation for the acquisition quality, since the bias towards rules with many frequent variations is avoided.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2007 - Proceedings
EditorsGalia Angelova, Kalina Bontcheva, Ruslan Mitkov, Nicolas Nicolov, Nikolai Nikolov
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages558-563
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9789549174373
StatePublished - 2007
EventInternational Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2007 - Borovets, Bulgaria
Duration: 27 Sep 200729 Sep 2007

Publication series

NameInternational Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP
Volume2007-January
ISSN (Print)1313-8502

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2007
Country/TerritoryBulgaria
CityBorovets
Period27/09/0729/09/07

Keywords

  • Knowledge acquisition
  • Paraphrases
  • Textual entailment

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