Recognizing Textual Entailment: Models and Applications

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1-222

  Dagan, Ido ^a   Roth, Dan ^b   Sammons, Mark ^b   Zanzotto, Fabio ^c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

knowledge acquisition; machine learning; natural language processing; textual entailment; textual inference

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; TEXT PROCESSING;

LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; RECOGNIZING TEXTUAL ENTAILMENTS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT; TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT; TEXTUAL INFERENCE;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 85044727708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19474040     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2200/S00509ED1V01Y201305HLT023     Document Type: Article

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