Modeling extractive sentence intersection via subtree entailment

Omer Levy, Ido Dagan, Gabriel Stanovsky, Judith Eckle-Kohler, Iryna Gurevych

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Abstract

Sentence intersection captures the semantic overlap of two texts, generalizing over paradigms such as textual entailment and semantic text similarity. Despite its modeling power, it has received little attention because it is difficult for non-experts to annotate. We analyze 200 pairs of similar sentences and identify several underlying properties of sentence intersection. We leverage these insights to design an algorithm that decomposes the sentence intersection task into several simpler annotation tasks, facilitating the construction of a high quality dataset via crowdsourcing. We implement this approach and provide an annotated dataset of 1,764 sentence intersections.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCOLING 2016 - 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2016
Subtitle of host publicationTechnical Papers
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics, ACL Anthology
Pages2891-2901
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9784879747020
StatePublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2016 - Osaka, Japan
Duration: 11 Dec 201616 Dec 2016

Publication series

NameCOLING 2016 - 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2016: Technical Papers

Conference

Conference26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2016
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityOsaka
Period11/12/1616/12/16

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