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applied NLP > information retrieval > information extraction > natural language inference

Preferred term

natural language inference  

Definition

  • A task which aims to determine whether a given hypothesis sentence is entailed by a given premise sentence. (Schuster, Neural Networks for Natural Language Inference)

Broader concept

Synonym(s)

  • NLI
  • recognizing textual entailment

Definitional context(s)

  • Natural Language Inference (NLI) or Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) aims at predicting the relation between a pair of sentences (premise and hypothesis) as entailment contradiction or semantic independence. (Sadat & Caragea, 2022)
  • Natural Language Inference (NLI) or Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) is the task of predicting whether a hypothesis entails contradicts or is neutral to a given premise. (Sadat & Caragea, 2022)

Example

  • Natural language inference makes it easy to judge the degree to which neural network models for sentence understanding capture the full meanings for natural language sentences. (Williams, Nangia & Bowman, 2018)
  • The task of natural language inference (NLI) is well positioned to serve as a benchmark task for research on NLU. (Williams, Nangia & Bowman, 2018)

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