1 code implementation • EMNLP (insights) 2021 • Liane Guillou, Sander Bijl de Vroe, Mark Johnson, Mark Steedman
Understanding linguistic modality is widely seen as important for downstream tasks such as Question Answering and Knowledge Graph Population.
1 code implementation • COLING (TextGraphs) 2020 • Liane Guillou, Sander Bijl de Vroe, Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Mark Johnson, Mark Steedman
We present a novel method for injecting temporality into entailment graphs to address the problem of spurious entailments, which may arise from similar but temporally distinct events involving the same pair of entities.
1 code implementation • ACL (CASE) 2021 • Sander Bijl de Vroe, Liane Guillou, Miloš Stanojević, Nick McKenna, Mark Steedman
Language provides speakers with a rich system of modality for expressing thoughts about events, without being committed to their actual occurrence.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2021 • Nick McKenna, Liane Guillou, Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Sander Bijl de Vroe, Mark Johnson, Mark Steedman
Drawing inferences between open-domain natural language predicates is a necessity for true language understanding.
1 code implementation • WS 2019 • Thomas Kober, Sander Bijl de Vroe, Mark Steedman
Inferences regarding "Jane's arrival in London" from predications such as "Jane is going to London" or "Jane has gone to London" depend on tense and aspect of the predications.