Assessing the Role of Discourse References in Entailment Inference
Shachar Mirkin, Ido Dagan, Sebastian Padó · 2010
Discourse references, notably coreference and bridging, play an important role in many text understanding applications, but their impact on textual entailment is yet to be systematically understood. On the ba-sis of an in-depth analysis of entailment instances, we argue that discourse refer-ences have the potential of substantially improving textual entailment recognition, and identify a number of research direc-tions towards this goal. 1