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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2014
Nec Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Daniel Georg Andrade Silva, Tokyo, JP;
Kai Ishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masaaki Tsuchida, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Onishi, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An entailment evaluation device includes: a generation unit which generates first information indicating at least the order of occurrence of events of first and second simple sentences included in the hypothesis text and generates second information indicating at least the order of occurrence of events of third and fourth simple sentences included in a target text, the third simple sentence being related to the first simple sentence, the fourth simple sentence being related to the second simple sentence; a calculation unit which obtains a calculation result by comparing, based on the first and second information, the order of occurrence of events of first and second simple sentences and order of occurrence of events of third and fourth simple sentences; and a determination unit which determines, based on at least the calculation result, whether or not the target text entails the hypothesis text.