Blindness to Modality Helps Entailment Graph Mining

Understanding linguistic modality is widely seen as important for downstream tasks such as Question Answering and Knowledge Graph Population. Entailment Graph learning might also be expected to benefit from attention to modality. We build Entailment Graphs using a news corpus filtered with a modalit...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2021-09
Main Authors: Guillou, Liane, Sander Bijl de Vroe, Johnson, Mark, Steedman, Mark
Format: Article
Language:English
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Blindness
Knowledge representation
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Summary:Understanding linguistic modality is widely seen as important for downstream tasks such as Question Answering and Knowledge Graph Population. Entailment Graph learning might also be expected to benefit from attention to modality. We build Entailment Graphs using a news corpus filtered with a modality parser, and show that stripping modal modifiers from predicates in fact increases performance. This suggests that for some tasks, the pragmatics of modal modification of predicates allows them to contribute as evidence of entailment.
ISSN:2331-8422