Vivek Srikumar

Mark Sammons, V.G. Vinod Vydiswaran, Tim Vieira, Nikhil Johri, Ming-Wei Chang, Dan Goldwasser, Vivek Srikumar, Gourab Kundu, Yuancheng Tu, Kevin Small, Joshua Rule, Quang Do and Dan Roth

Text Analysis Conference (TAC), 2009.

We present an approach to textual entailment recognition, in which inference is based on a shallow semantic representation of relations (predicates and their arguments) in the text and hypothesis of the entailment pair, and in which specialized knowledge is encapsulated in modular components with very simple interfaces. We propose an architecture designed to integrate different, unscaled Natural Language Processing resources, and demonstrate an alignment-based method for combining them. We clarify the purpose of alignment in the RTE task, identifying two distinct alignment models, each of which leads to a different type of entailment system. We identify desirable properties of alignment, and use this to inform our implementation of an alignment component. We evaluate the resulting system on the RTE5 data set, and use an ablation study to assess the conformance of our alignment approach with these desired characteristics.

@inproceedings{sammons2009relation,
  author = {Sammons, Mark and Vydiswaran, V.G. Vinod and Vieira, Tim and Johri, Nikhil and Chang, Ming-Wei and Goldwasser, Dan and Srikumar, Vivek and Kundu, Gourab and Tu, Yuancheng and Small, Kevin and Rule, Joshua and Do, Quang and Roth, Dan},
  title = {{Relation Alignment for Textual Entailment Recognition}},
  booktitle = {Text Analysis Conference (TAC)},
  year = {2009}
}