[PDF][PDF] Unsupervised entailment detection between dependency graph fragments

M Rei, T Briscoe - Proceedings of BioNLP 2011 Workshop, 2011 - aclanthology.org
Proceedings of BioNLP 2011 Workshop, 2011aclanthology.org
Entailment detection systems are generally designed to work either on single words,
relations or full sentences. We propose a new task–detecting entailment between
dependency graph fragments of any type–which relaxes these restrictions and leads to
much wider entailment discovery. An unsupervised framework is described that uses
intrinsic similarity, multi-level extrinsic similarity and the detection of negation and hedged
language to assign a confidence score to entailment relations between two fragments. The …
Abstract
Entailment detection systems are generally designed to work either on single words, relations or full sentences. We propose a new task–detecting entailment between dependency graph fragments of any type–which relaxes these restrictions and leads to much wider entailment discovery. An unsupervised framework is described that uses intrinsic similarity, multi-level extrinsic similarity and the detection of negation and hedged language to assign a confidence score to entailment relations between two fragments. The final system achieves 84.1% average precision on a data set of entailment examples from the biomedical domain.
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