Inference for Natural Language
Amal Alshahrani, Allan M. Ramsay · Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) · 2013
The main aim of this study is to develop a natural language inference (NLI) engine that is more robust than typical systems that are based on post-Montague approaches to semantics and more accurate than the kinds of shallow approaches usually used for textual entailment, The term robustness is concerned with processing as many inputs as possible successfully, and the term accuracy is concerned with producing correct result. In recent years, several approaches have been proposed for NLI. These approaches range from shallow approaches to deep approaches. However, each approach has a number of limitations, which we discuss in this paper. We argue that all approaches to NLI share a common architecture, and that it may be possible to overcome the limitations inherent in the existing approaches by combining elements of both kinds of strategy.