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We present in this paper the structure of a textual entailer, offer a detailed view of lexical aspects of entailment and study the impact of syntactic information on the overall performance of the textual entailer. It is shown that lemmatization has a big impact on the lexical component of our approach and that syntax leads to accurate entailment decisions for a subset of the test data.
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Rus, V., McCarthy, P.M., Graesser, A.C. (2006). Analysis of a Textual Entailer. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3878. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11671299_30
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