Challenge: Existing systems for Natural Language Inference (NLI) only recognize textual entailment relations on sentence-level . however, even a simple sentence often contains multiple propositions, i.e. distinct units of meaning conveyed by the sentence .
Approach: They propose a system to recognize whether one text is textually entailed by another . they use a corpus of over 45K propositions annotated by human raters to study the textual entailment relation of each proposition in a sentence individually.
Outcome: The proposed dataset can be used to understand the compositionality of NLI labels.

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