Links

The EXCITEMENT Open Platform (EOP) is a generic multi-lingual platform for textual inference made available to the scientific and technological communities.

The EXCITEMENT Open Platform (EOP) is available at the following URL:

http://hltfbk.github.io/Excitement-Open-Platform/

In this page we publish a list of links useful for people interested in Textual Entailment.

As a service to the TE community, the EXCITEMENT project is contributing to the update of the ACLwiki Textual Entailment Portal, where you can find information about various resources related to TE.

If you are interested in knowing more about the EXCITEMENT project, you may have a look at:

• EXCITEMENT brochure
• EXCITEMENT one-page presentation

In November 2013, the Joint Symposium on Semantic Processing (JSSP 2013) took place at FBK in Trento (Italy). The Symposium is an event jointly organized by the EU-funded project EXCITEMENT (http://www.excitement-project.eu/) and by the B-CROCE project and it is endorsed by ACL SIGLEX and ACL SIGSEM. The proceedings are available in the ACL Anthology.

During 2013, two tutorials on TE took place.

• a pre-conference tutorial at AAAI 2013 on July 14 in Bellevue, Washington; slides are available from http://www.nlpado.de/~sebastian/tutorial_aaai13.shtml
• a two-week course (15 hours) on Textual Entailment during the DGfS/CL Fall School; slides and other materials are available from http://fallschool2013.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/material_te.mhtml

In July 2013, the following book about Textual Entailment has been published by Morgan & Claypool:

Ido Dagan, Dan Roth, Mark Sammons, and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto

Recognizing Textual Entailment: Models and Applications.

Morgan & Claypool Publishers, July 2013.

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the use of DKPro (Darmstadt Knowledge Processing Software Repository) in the Excitement Open Platform (EOP).