Understanding entailment and contradiction is fundamental to understanding natural
language, and inference about entailment and contradiction is a valuable testing ground for …

This paper presents a novel approach to the problem of paraphrase identification. Although
paraphrases often make use of synonymous or near synonymous terms, many previous …

Load balancing techniques (eg work stealing) are important to obtain the best performance
for distributed task scheduling systems that have multiple schedulers making scheduling …

Accuracy is one of the basic principles of journalism. However, it is increasingly hard to
manage due to the diversity of news media. Some editors of online news tend to use catchy …

Abstract Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) is a fundamentally important task in natural
language processing that has many applications. The recently released Stanford Natural …

Measuring the semantic similarity of short texts is a noteworthy problem since short texts are
widely used on the Internet, in the form of product descriptions or captions, image and …

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Research claims in the biomedical domain are not always consistent, and may even be
contradictory. This thesis explores contradictions between research claims in order to …

The last few years have seen many striking successes from artificial neural network models
on hard natural language processing tasks. These models replace complex hand …

Building parallel resources for corpus based machine translation, especially Statistical
Machine Translation (SMT), from comparable corpora has recently received wide attention …