Abstract
Recognizing textual entailment (RTE) is a well-defined task concerning semantic analysis. It is evaluated against manually annotated collection of pairs hypothesis–text. A pair is annotated true if the text entails the hypothesis and false otherwise. Such collection can be used for training or testing a RTE application only if it is large enough.
We present a game which purpose is to collect h–t pairs. It follows a detective story narrative pattern: a brilliant detective and his slower assistant talk about the riddle to reveal the solution to readers. In the game the detective (human player) provides a short story. The assistant (the application) proposes hypotheses the detective judges true, false or non-sense.
Hypothesis generation is a rule-based process but the most likely hypotheses that are offered for annotation are calculated from a language model. During generation individual sentence constituents are rearranged to produce syntactically correct sentences.
The game is intended to collect data in the Czech language. However, the idea can be applied for other languages. The paper concentrates on description of the most interesting modules from a language-independent point of view as well as the game elements.
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Nevěřilová, Z. (2014). Annotation Game for Textual Entailment Evaluation. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8403. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54906-9_28
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