The Role of Semantics in Recognizing Textual Entailment.
Catherine L. Blake, Zheng Zhong Wu, Kyle Painter, Walker Weyerhaeuser · 2010
Systems designed to recognize textual entailment typically employ both syntax and semantics. Our goal in this paper is to explore the degree to which semantics alone can be used to accurately detect entailment so that we can gain a better understanding of this single component within an entailment system. This paper reports the knowledge-bases considered and selected for person names, locations and organizations and the results of the system when used on the Recognizing