Recognition of textual entailment is not an easy task. In fact, early experimental evidences in [1] seems to demonstrate that even human judges often fail in reaching an agreement on the existence of entailment relation between two expressions. We aim to contribute to the theoretical and practical setting of textual entailment, through both a linguistic inspection of the textual entailment phen...

This paper describes our work in NTCIR-11 on RITE-3 Binary-class (BC) subtask and Multi-class (MC) subtask in Simplified Chinese. We proposed a textual entailment system using a hybrid approach that integrates many features. The performance of the proposed method in the formal run achieved Macro-F1’s of 59.71% in BC subtask and only 23.19% in MC subtask

This study aimed to investigate the impact of textual enhancement and metalinguistic explanation as focus-on-form tasks tending to encourage the acquisition of nominal clauses (NCs) in English. It explored (a) whether textual enhancement and metalinguistic explanation would promote and enhance the knowledge of NCs, (b) whether these two tasks would differ in terms of enhancing learners' knowled...

Context awareness refers to systems that can both sense and react based on their environment. The complexity of these systems makes necessary to apply software engineering techniques in their development, such as Model-Driven Software development (MDD). One of the main difficulties that developers of contextaware systems must tackle is how to manage the needed context information. In this paper...

A b s t r a c t Automatic corpus-based sense resolution, or sense dlsambiguation, techniques tend to focus either on very local context or on topical context. Both components axe needed for word sense resolution. A contextual representation of a word sense consists of topical context and local context. Our goal is to construct contextual representations by automatically extracting topical and l...

Today the so-called problem of discourse should boil down to (1) identifying relevant con­textual variables, (2) matching these specific linguistic categories, and (3) operationalizing former vis-à-vis latter. Having posited this, purpose article is twofold. In a more theoretical sense, outline one possible model context each 'tier' which potentially related certain categories analytical toolki...

This paper presents the second round of the task on Cross-lingual Textual Entailment for Content Synchronization, organized within SemEval-2013. The task was designed to promote research on semantic inference over texts written in different languages, targeting at the same time a real application scenario. Participants were presented with datasets for different language pairs, where multi-direc...