Publication
Recognizing Textual Entailment Using a Subsequence Kernel Method
Rui Wang; Günter Neumann
In: In Proceedings of AAAI. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), AAAI, 2007.
Abstract
We present a novel approach to recognizing Textual Entailment. Structural features are constructed from abstract tree descriptions, which are automatically extracted from syntactic dependency trees. These features are then applied in a subsequence-kernel-based classifier to learn whether an entailment relation holds between two texts. Our method makes use of machine learning techniques using a limited data set, no external knowledge bases (e.g. WordNet), and no handcrafted inference rules. We achieve an accuracy of 74.5% for text pairs in the Information Extraction and Question Answering task, 63.6% for the RTE-2 test data, and 66.9% for the RET-3 test data.