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Recognizing entailment in Chinese texts with feature combination

  • Wuhan University of Science and Technology
  • National University of Singapore

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Abstract

In recent years, the natural language processing community has been manifesting increasing interest in textual entailment recognition among English texts. Yet, so far, not much attention has been paid to textual entailment recognition in Chinese texts. Recognizing entailment can be cast as a classification problem, and in this paper, a classification model based on support vector machine is constructed to detect semantic relations in Chinese text pair, including forward entailment, reverse entailment, bidirectional entailment, contradiction and independence for the multi-class task. We introduce different feature combinations based on four kinds of features, containing Chinese surface textual, Chinese lexical semantic, Chinese syntactic and Chinese linguistic phenomena features, to our classification model. The experimental results on NTCIR RITE-3 data collection show that the accuracy of our classification model using the feature combination with all the four kinds of Chinese textual features achieves a much better performance than all other systems on multi-class task.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2015 International Conference on Asian Language Processing, IALP 2015
EditorsBin Ma, Min Zhang, Yanfeng Lu, Minghui Dong, Wenliang Chen
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages82-85
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781467395953
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Apr 2016
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Asian Language Processing, IALP 2015 - Suzhou, China
Duration: 24 Oct 201525 Oct 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of 2015 International Conference on Asian Language Processing, IALP 2015

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Asian Language Processing, IALP 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CitySuzhou
Period24/10/1525/10/15

Keywords

  • Chinese lexical semantic feature
  • Chinese linguistic phenomina feature
  • Chinese surface textual feature
  • Chinese syntactic feature
  • Chinese textual entailment
  • feature combination
  • support vector machine

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