UB.dmirg: A Syntactic Lexical System for Recognizing Textual Entailments.
Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John L. Yearwood · 2009
This paper reports on our Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) system developed for participation in the Text Analysis Conference RTE 2009 competition. The development of the system is based on the lexical entailment between two text excerpts, namely the hypothesis and the text. To extract atomic parts of hypotheses and texts, we carry out syntactic parsing on the sentences. We then utilize WordNet and FrameNet lexical resources for estimating lexical coverage of the text on the hypothesis. Using a failure analysis process, we show that the main difficulty of our RTE system relates to the underlying difficulty of syntactic analysis of sentences. 1