A Broad-Coverage Challenge Corpus for Sentence Understanding through Inference (N18-1)
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| Challenge: | et al., 1996, show that many of the most actively studied problems in NLP depend in large part on natural language understanding (NLU). |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset for machine learning that uses ten different genres of English to evaluate sentences for their meanings. |
| Outcome: | The multi-genre natural language inference corpus is one of the largest available for natural language understanding. |
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