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Generating textual entailment using residual lstms

  • Maosheng Guo*
  • , Yu Zhang
  • , Dezhi Zhao
  • , Ting Liu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Generating textual entailment (GTE) is a recently proposed task to study how to infer a sentence from a given premise. Current sequence-to-sequence GTE models are prone to produce invalid sentences when facing with complex enough premises. Moreover, the lack of appropriate evaluation criteria hinders researches on GTE. In this paper, we conjecture that the unpowerful encoder is the major bottleneck in generating more meaningful sequences, and improve this by employing the residual LSTM network. With the extended model, we obtain state-of-the-art results. Furthermore, we propose a novel metric for GTE, namely EBR (Evaluated By Recognizing textual entailment), which could evaluate different GTE approaches in an objective and fair way without human effort while also considering the diversity of inferences. In the end, we point out the limitation of adapting a general sequence-to-sequence framework under GTE settings, with some proposals for future research, hoping to generate more public discussion.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationChinese Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Based on Naturally Annotated Big Data - 16th China National Conference, CCL 2017 and 5th International Symposium, NLP-NABD 2017, Proceedings
EditorsMaosong Sun, Baobao Chang, Xiaojie Wang, Deyi Xiong
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages263-272
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783319690049
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event16th China National Conference on Computational Linguistics, CCL 2017 and 5th International Symposium on Natural Language Processing Based on Naturally Annotated Big Data, NLP-NABD 2017 - Nanjing, China
Duration: 13 Oct 201715 Oct 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10565 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th China National Conference on Computational Linguistics, CCL 2017 and 5th International Symposium on Natural Language Processing Based on Naturally Annotated Big Data, NLP-NABD 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityNanjing
Period13/10/1715/10/17

Keywords

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Generating textual entailment
  • Natural language generation
  • Natural language processing

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