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MLCW
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Learning Textual Entailment on a Distance Feature Space
Textual Entailment recognition is a very difficult task as it is one of the fundamental problems in any semantic theory of natural language. As in many other NLP tasks, Machine Lea...
Maria Teresa Pazienza, Marco Pennacchiotti, Fabio ...
MLCW
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Lessons Learned in the Challenge: Making Predictions and Scoring Them
In this paper we present lessons learned in the Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty Challenge. We describe the methods we used in regression challenges, including our winning method ...
Jukka Kohonen, Jukka Suomela
MLCW
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Textual Entailment Recognition Based on Dependency Analysis and WordNet
The Recognizing Textual Entailment System shown here is based on the use of a broad-coverage parser to extract dependency relationships; in addition, WordNet relations are used to ...
Jesús Herrera, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa...
MLCW
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Lexical Alignment Model for Probabilistic Textual Entailment
This paper describes the Bar-Ilan system participating in the Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge. The paper proposes first a general probabilistic setting that formalizes th...
Oren Glickman, Ido Dagan, Moshe Koppel
MLCW
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The 2005 PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge
The PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge ran from February to March 2005. The goal of the challenge was to recognize objects from a number of visual object classes in realistic s...
Mark Everingham, Andrew Zisserman, Christopher K. ...
MLCW
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
VENSES - A Linguistically-Based System for Semantic Evaluation
Rodolfo Delmonte, Sara Tonelli, Marco Aldo Piccoli...
MLCW
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The PASCAL Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge
This paper describes the PASCAL Network of Excellence first Recognising Textual Entailment (RTE-1) Challenge benchmark1 . The RTE task is defined as recognizing, given two text f...
Ido Dagan, Oren Glickman, Bernardo Magnini
MLCW
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Estimating Predictive Variances with Kernel Ridge Regression
In many regression tasks, in addition to an accurate estimate of the conditional mean of the target distribution, an indication of the predictive uncertainty is also required. Ther...
Gavin C. Cawley, Nicola L. C. Talbot, Olivier Chap...
MLCW
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty Challenge
This Chapter presents the PASCAL1 Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty Challenge, introduces the contributed Chapters by the participants who obtained outstanding results, and provide...
Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Carl Edward Rasm...
MLCW
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
An Inference Model for Semantic Entailment in Natural Language
Semantic entailment is the problem of determining if the meaning of a given sentence entails that of another. This is a fundamental problem in natural language understanding that ...
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, Roxana Girju, Vasin Punyaka...