<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">(Apologies for cross postings.)</span></font></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></span></font></b></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></span></font></b></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Announcing</span> the Excitement Open Platform for Textual Inference!</font></b></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">We present the EXCITEMENT Open Platform (<span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">EOP</span>), a general open source architecture for textual inference, which provides a toolbox with state-of-the-art semantic technology for recognizing textual entailment (RTE). The <span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">EOP</span> was designed and implemented with the complementary experience of four academic institutions, and was demonstrated at ACL 2014.</font></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000">Main Features</font></b></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Implementations of state-of-the-art methods for textual entailment.<br></font></li><span class="im"><font color="#000000"><li style="margin-left:15px">Modular design, including: preprocessing pipeline, entailment algorithms, and knowledge resources.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Multilingual support, including tools for creating new resources in any language.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">End-to-end entailment systems configured in English, German, and Italian.</li></font></span></ul></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div><b><font color="#000000">Usage Types</font></b></div><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">As a semantic processing "black box" inside NLP applications, without any implementation effort.<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">As a research platform for textual inference.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">As an educational platform for teaching data-driven computational semantics.</font></li></ul></div></div><span class="im" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><div><br></div><div><b>Where can I learn more?</b></div></font></span><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Download <span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">EOP</span> here: <a href="http://hltfbk.github.io/Excitement-Open-Platform" target="_blank">http://hltfbk.github.io/Excitement-Open-Platform</a></font></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000">About Us</font></b></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">The Excitement Open Platform was developed by the academic partners of the EC-funded EXCITEMENT project: </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:small"><a href="http://www.excitement-project.eu">http://www.excitement-project.eu</a></span></div><div><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font></div></div>