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On-demand Injection of Lexical Knowledge for Recognising Textual Entailment

1 Apr 2017EACL 2017 4archive 2025-07-28

Pascual Mart{\'\i}nez-G{\'o}mez, Koji Mineshima, Yusuke Miyao, Daisuke Bekki

We approach the recognition of textual entailment using logical semantic representations and a theorem prover. In this setup, lexical divergences that preserve semantic entailment between the source and target texts need to be explicitly stated. However, recognising subsentential semantic relations is not trivial. We address this problem by monitoring the proof of the theorem and detecting unprovable sub-goals that share predicate arguments with logical premises. If a linguistic relation exists, then an appropriate axiom is constructed on-demand and the theorem proving continues. Experiments show that this approach is effective and precise, producing a system that outperforms other logic-based systems and is competitive with state-of-the-art statistical methods.

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