Natural Language Inference with Monotonicity

Hai Hu, Qi Chen, Larry Moss


Abstract
This paper describes a working system which performs natural language inference using polarity-marked parse trees. The system handles all of the instances of monotonicity inference in the FraCaS data set. Except for the initial parse, it is entirely deterministic. It handles multi-premise arguments, and the kind of inference performed is essentially “logical”, but it goes beyond what is representable in first-order logic. In any case, the system works on surface forms rather than on representations of any kind.
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W19-0502
Volume:
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics - Short Papers
Month:
May
Year:
2019
Address:
Gothenburg, Sweden
Editors:
Simon Dobnik, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Vera Demberg
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IWCS
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SIGSEM
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
8–15
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W19-0502
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-0502
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Hai Hu, Qi Chen, and Larry Moss. 2019. Natural Language Inference with Monotonicity. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics - Short Papers, pages 8–15, Gothenburg, Sweden. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Natural Language Inference with Monotonicity (Hu et al., IWCS 2019)
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