Questions tagged [entailment]
Entailment is the relationship between two sentences where the truth of one (A) requires the truth of the other (B).
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Why is 'before' a Downward Entailing Operator, but 'after' is not?
I'm a teaching assistant for a linguistics class and I'm having a hard time finding a clear and concise way to explain the difference between "before" and "after" re: entailment.
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Does a sentence with an adjunct entail the same sentence without the adjunct?
Entailment is a situation in which the truth of a given sentence necessitates the truth of some related sentence. If the sentence Susan is taller than Jane is true, then we know for sure that the ...
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Are these two propositions semantically entailed?
Now with spare time on my hands am rekindling my interest in linguistics. Doing some self study and am struggling with an exercise. I have 2 propositions and I am trying to work out the relationship ...
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Does any of these sentences entail the other? [closed]
Does any of these sentences entail the other one?
My last name is Jones.
My father's last name was Jones.
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What is the entailment of this sentence?
I found that most of the examples of entailment are statements about a third person, but never the speakers themselves. So I wonder what the utterance like "I'm cold." entails?
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Neural Net advances in textual entailment and mathematical semantics/logic view on it
I wonder if researchers working on textual entailment using explicit modelling tools (mathematical semantics / logic /formal semantics) have an explanation of recent success of neural networks in ...
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Am I understanding semantic entailment correctly?
I'm trying to make sure I understand entailment properly, but my prof basically said two sentences that only briefly explained what entailment is, and he's not teaching this course with a textbook.
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Are these phrases downward entailing?
Please consider the following phrases with respect to downward entailment:
Mary remembers that French students saw her.
Mary remembers that tall French students saw her.
(in my opinion, this is not ...
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Downward entailing verbs: is the verb "remember" downward entailing?
I have some doubts if there is downward entailing environment with "remember":
a. Mary forgot that she saw anyone.
b. Mary forgot that anyone saw her.
c. #Mary remembered that she saw anyone.
d. #...
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the difference between upward and downward entailment
How does one show the difference of an upward entailment between that of a downward entailment? I have tried doing examples where the negative polarity item is moved from the verb phrase to the noun ...
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Conversational Implicature vs. Ambiguity
This book suggests the cancellability test for distinguishing the logical consequence from conversational implicature of an assertion.
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1a. You can have either soup or salad.
1b. You cannot ...
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Entailments Relations
I have problem understanding the entailment logic on these examples and would like some help.
Here's my answers:
Sally works together with Polly.
Sally works.
=> I think one entails other, but not ...
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