Linguistic Inference and Textual Entailment (SS 2009)

Schedule

After the introductory part, we will have three blocks of presentations. Precise topics and dates will be fixed at the beginning of the seminar.

I. Inference and Semantic Similarity (SIM)

• Automatic Acquisition of Inference Rules (Lin&Pantel 2001)
• Supporting Inference in Context: Word-Sense specific similarity (Mitchell&Lapata 2008, Erk&Pado 2008,Dinu&Wang 2009, Wang&Neumann 2007)
• Inference as Directional Similarity (Bhagat et al. 2007, Geffet&Dagan 2005, Weeds&Weir 2003, Pantel et al. 2007)

II. Enhancing shallow methods with structured lexical knowledge (LEX)

• Lexical knowledge for inference (Moldovan et al. 2003, Tatu et al. 2006)
• Frame-semantic information for textual inference (Burchardt et al. 2005, Burchardt&Frank 2006, Burchardt et al. 2008)

III. Adapting logical approaches for textual inference (LOG)

• Computing and exploiting polarity information (Nairn et al. 2006)
• Natural Logic (MacCartney&Manning 2007, MacCartney&Manning 2009)
• Abductive Reasoning (Hobbs et al. 1988, Hobbs et al. 1993, Raina et al. 2005)
• DRT-Based Reasoning ( Bos 2001, Bos&Markert 2006)