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International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2007)
Determining Modality and Factuality for Text Entailment
Irvine, California
September 17-September 19
ISBN: 0-7695-2997-6
Roser Saurf, Brandeis University
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University
Recognizing textual entailment (TE) is a complex task involving knowledge from many different sources. One major source of information in this task is event factuality, since the inferences derivable from factual eventualities are different from those judged as possible or as non-existent. Some TE systems already factor in factuality features at the local level, but determining the factuality of events more generally involves dealing with information that is nonlocal to a particular textual event. In this paper, we present a tool providing events with their factuality values, characterized as pairs of modality and polarity features. In previous work, we identified polarity and modality at the local context with a performance of 92% precision and 56% recall. The research presented here extends and enhances our algorithm to incorporate the influence of non-local context as well as the identification of sources.
Citation:
Roser Saurf, James Pustejovsky, "Determining Modality and Factuality for Text Entailment," icsc, pp.509-516, International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2007), 2007
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