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We propose a novel approach to recognise textual entailment (RTE) following a two-stage architecture – alignment and decision – where both stages are based on semantic representations. In the alignment stage the entailment candidate pairs are represented and aligned using predicate-argument structures. In the decision stage, a Markov Logic Network (MLN) is learnt using rich relational information from the alignment stage to predict an entailment decision. We evaluate this approach using the RTE Challenge datasets. It achieves the best results for the RTE-3 dataset and shows comparable performance against the state of the art approaches for other datasets.
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Rios, M., Specia, L., Gelbukh, A., Mitkov, R. (2014). Statistical Relational Learning to Recognise Textual Entailment. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8403. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54906-9_27
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