Design and Realization of the EXCITEMENT Open Platform for Textual Entailment

摘要

Textual Entailment (TE) is a binary relation between two natural language text which holds if the truth of a first text implies the truth of the second one, or at least makes it very likely. Good methods to recognize TE have the potential to impact many NLP tasks, where the ability to draw conclusions from textual expressed facts is a key challenge. The area of TE has seen the development of a range of algorithms, methods, and technologies over the last decade.