[Corpora-List] (New book) Dagan etal: Recognizing Textual Entailment

[Graeme Hirst]

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Recognizing Textual Entailment: Models and Applications

by Ido Dagan, Dan Roth, Mark Sammons, and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies #23 (Morgan &
Claypool Publishers), 2013, 220 pages

ABSTRACT:

In the last few years, a number of NLP researchers have developed and
participated in the task of Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE).
This task encapsulates Natural Language Understanding capabilities
within a very simple interface: recognizing when the meaning of a
text snippet is contained in the meaning of a second piece of text.
This simple abstraction of an exceedingly complex problem has broad
appeal partly because it can be conceived also as a component in
other NLP applications, from Machine Translation to Semantic Search
to Information Extraction. It also avoids commitment to any specific
meaning representation and reasoning framework, broadening its appeal
within the research community. This level of abstraction also
facilitates evaluation, a crucial component of any technological
advancement program.

This book explains the RTE task formulation adopted by the NLP
research community, and gives a clear overview of research in this
area. It draws out commonalities in this research, detailing the
intuitions behind dominant approaches and their theoretical
underpinnings.

This book has been written with a wide audience in mind, but is
intended to inform all readers about the state of the art in this
fascinating field, to give a clear understanding of the principles
underlying RTE research to date, and to highlight the short- and
long-term research goals that will advance this technology.

Table of Contents: List of Figures / List of Tables / Preface /
Acknowledgments / Textual Entailment / Architectures and Approaches /
Alignment, Classification, and Learning / Case Studies / Knowledge
Acquisition for Textual Entailment / Research Directions in RTE /
Bibliography / Authors' Biographies

http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00509ED1V01Y201305HLT023


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