{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/blindness-to-modality-helps-entailment-graph","title":"Blindness to Modality Helps Entailment Graph Mining","arxiv_id":"2109.10227","date":"2021-09-21","proceeding":"EMNLP (insights) 2021 11","authors":["Liane Guillou","Sander Bijl de Vroe","Mark Johnson","Mark Steedman"],"abstract":"Understanding linguistic modality is widely seen as important for downstream tasks such as Question Answering and Knowledge Graph Population. Entailment Graph learning might also be expected to benefit from attention to modality. We build Entailment Graphs using a news corpus filtered with a modality parser, and show that stripping modal modifiers from predicates in fact increases performance. This suggests that for some tasks, the pragmatics of modal modification of predicates allows them to contribute as evidence of entailment.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.10227v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.10227v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"blindness-to-modality-helps-entailment-graph","repo_url":"https://gitlab.com/lianeg/sports-entailment-evaluation","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"graph-learning","task_name":"Graph Learning"},{"task_slug":"graph-mining","task_name":"Graph Mining"},{"task_slug":"question-answering","task_name":"Question Answering"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/2109.10227","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2109.10227","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}