Article Structure

Abstract

Researchers in textual entailment have begun to consider inferences involving downward-entailing operators, an interesting and important class of lexical items that change the way inferences are made.

Introduction

Cristi: “Nicio” is that adjective you’ve mentioned.

DLD09: successes and challenges

In this section, we briefly summarize those aspects of the DLD09 method that are important to understanding how our new co-learning method works.

Getting a clue

In this section, we develop an iterative co-learning algorithm that can extract DE operators in the many languages where a high-quality NPI

Romanian results

Our results show that there is indeed favorable synergy between DE-operator and pNPI retrieval.

Cross-linguistic analysis

Applying our algorithm to English: connections to linguistic typology So far, we have made no assumptions about the language on which our algorithm is applied.