Bridging Knowledge Gaps in Neural Entailment via Symbolic Models

Dongyeop Kang, Tushar Khot, Ashish Sabharwal, Peter Clark
2018 Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing  
Most textual entailment models focus on lexical gaps between the premise text and the hypothesis, but rarely on knowledge gaps. We focus on filling these knowledge gaps in the Science Entailment task, by leveraging an external structured knowledge base (KB) of science facts. Our new architecture combines standard neural entailment models with a knowledge lookup module. To facilitate this lookup, we propose a fact-level decomposition of the hypothesis, and verifying the resulting sub-facts
more » ... t both the textual premise and the structured KB. Our model, NSnet, learns to aggregate predictions from these heterogeneous data formats. On the SciTail dataset, NSnet outperforms a simpler combination of the two predictions by 3% and the base entailment model by 5%.
doi:10.18653/v1/d18-1535 dblp:conf/emnlp/KangKSC18 fatcat:bfc3of2epberxltpykqzw2sjme