我們所參與公開評測 NTCIR10 RITE-2[5]將文字蘊涵的研究分成兩種層面,首先是分兩 類(Binary Class, BC) ,任務的目標是單純判別 T1 與 T2 之間是否具有蘊涵關係。但句 子之間蘊涵關係並不能單純以有或沒有這麼簡單就區分開,NTCIR RITE 另外定義多類 (Multi Class, MC)這項任務,將句子之間的蘊涵分類為正向、雙向、矛盾、與獨立四種 關係。假設這個句子對具有蘊涵關係,但有可能兩個句子所包涵的資訊數量不同,造成 我們只能從其中一個句子推論出另一個句子的完整的意思,這樣的情況我們稱為兩個句 子間的蘊涵關係為正向蘊涵。反之兩個句子可以互相推論出另一個句子的含意,這樣的 情況我們就稱為雙向蘊涵關係。假設句子對之間沒有蘊涵關係,我們可以很合理認為兩 個句子所表達的意思不相同,但這並不完全正確的想法。可能兩個句子所包涵的資訊大 致相同只是少部份...

This paper describes the Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) system that our teams developed for TAC 2011. Our system combines the entailment score calculated by lexicallevel matching with the machine-learningbased filtering mechanism using various features obtained from lexical-level, chunk-level and predicate argument structure-level information. In the filtering mechanism, we try to discard...

The main purpose of the present study was to investigate self-criticism as a potential mediating factor in the link between mother-adolescent relationships with aggression and perceptions of social competence. The sample consisted of 888 older (M = 14.3 years) and younger (M = 11.6 years) adolescent children from the same family. Maternal self-criticism strongly corresponded to the quality of r...

OBJECTIVES When things go wrong for people they can become self-critical or focus on positive, reassuring aspects of the self. This study explored the relationship between forms of self-criticism and self-reassurance, recall of parental experiences and attachment style in relation to depressed symptoms in students. METHODS A sample of 197 undergraduate students from the UK and Canada complete...

The main goal of FBK-irst participation at RTE-4 was to experiment the use of combined specialized entailment engines, each addressing a specific phenomena relevant to entailment. The approach is motivated since textual entailment is due to the combination of several linguistic phenomena which interact among them in a quite complex way. We were driven by the following two considerations: (i) de...

This paper presents a methodology for a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of Textual Entailment systems. We take advantage of the decomposition of Text Hypothesis pairs into monothematic pairs, i.e. pairs where only one linguistic phenomenon at a time is responsible for entailment judgment, and propose to run TE systems over such datasets. We show that several behaviours of a system can b...

Hypernymy, textual entailment, and image captioning can be seen as special cases of a single visual-semantic hierarchy over words, sentences, and images. In this paper we advocate for explicitly modeling the partial order structure of this hierarchy. Towards this goal, we introduce a general method for learning ordered representations, and show how it can be applied to a variety of tasks involv...

We present a novel text exploration model, which extends the scope of state-of-the-art technologies by moving from standard concept-based exploration to statement-based exploration. The proposed scheme utilizes the textual entailment relation between statements as the basis of the exploration process. A user of our system can explore the result space of a query by drilling down/up from one stat...