Conversation Entailment
Motivations and Objectives
Textual entailment has mainly focused on infer- ence from written text in monologue. Recent years also observed an increasing amount of conversa- tional data such as conversation scripts of meetings, call center records, court proceedings, as well as on- line chatting. Although conversation is a form of language, it is different from monologue text with several unique characteristics. The key distinctive features include turn-taking between participants, grounding between participants, different linguistic phenomena of utterances, and conversation impli- catures. Traditional approaches dealing with tex- tual entailment were not designed to handle these unique conversation behaviors and thus to support automated entailment from conversation scripts. This projects intends to address this limitation.
Related Papers
- Natural Language Inference: from Textual Entailment to Conversation Entailment . C. Zhang, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2010.
- Towards Conversation Entailment: An Empirical Investigation. C. Zhang and J. Y. Chai. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), MIT, MA, October, 2010.
- What do We Know about Conversation Participants: Experiments on Conversation Entailment. C. Zhang and J. Y. Chai. The 10th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, London, UK, September, 2009.