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DirRelCond3: detecting textual entailment across languages with conditions on directional text relatedness scores

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SemEval '12: Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics - Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

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There are relatively few entailment heuristics that exploit the directional nature of the entailment relation. Cross-Lingual Text Entailment (CLTE), besides introducing the extra dimension of cross-linguality, also requires to determine the exact direction of the entailment relation, to provide content synchronization (Negri et al., 2012). Our system uses simple dictionary lookup combined with heuristic conditions to determine the possible directions of entailment between the two texts written in different languages. The key members of the conditions were derived from (Corley and Mihalcea, 2005) formula initially for text similarity, while the entailment condition used as a starting point was that from (Tatar et al., 2009). We show the results obtained by our implementation of this simple and fast approach at the CLTE task from the SemEval-2012 challenge.

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Negri MMarchetti AMehdad YBentivogli LGiampiccolo DAgirre E(2012)Semeval-2012 task 8Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics - Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation10.5555/2387636.2387700(399-407)Online publication date: 7-Jun-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2387636.2387700

DirRelCond3: detecting textual entailment across languages with conditions on directional text relatedness scores

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Negri MMarchetti AMehdad YBentivogli LGiampiccolo DAgirre E(2012)Semeval-2012 task 8Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics - Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation10.5555/2387636.2387700(399-407)Online publication date: 7-Jun-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2387636.2387700

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