In a previous entry, I wrote about the Entailment Challenge. Entailment is a linguistic knowledge concept that concerns two sentences about an event or idea. It is said that sentence A ‘entails’ sentence B when all of the meaning in B is contained in A. Follow this link to see more discussion: Recognizing Entailment.
As part of the Master’s program in Computational Linguistics at the University of Washington, we are preparing for internship appointments in the summer of 2008. As part of that preparation, we were asked to pick a topic that concerns Computational Linguistics and write a short summary of a few papers that covered the topic. This is a PDF of that paper. PreInternship Topic