A Straightforward Pipeline for Targeted Entailment and Contradiction Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17127v1
• Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 19:59:24 GMT
• Title: A Straightforward Pipeline for Targeted Entailment and Contradiction Detection
• Authors: Antonin Sulc,
• Abstract summary: Key challenge is to identify which sentences act as premises or contradictions for a specific claim.<n>We introduce a method that combines the strengths of both approaches for a targeted analysis.<n>By filtering NLI-identified relationships with attention-based saliency scores, our method efficiently isolates the most significant semantic relationships for any given claim in a text.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Finding the relationships between sentences in a document is crucial for tasks like fact-checking, argument mining, and text summarization. A key challenge is to identify which sentences act as premises or contradictions for a specific claim. Existing methods often face a trade-off: transformer attention mechanisms can identify salient textual connections but lack explicit semantic labels, while Natural Language Inference (NLI) models can classify relationships between sentence pairs but operate independently of contextual saliency. In this work, we introduce a method that combines the strengths of both approaches for a targeted analysis. Our pipeline first identifies candidate sentences that are contextually relevant to a user-selected target sentence by aggregating token-level attention scores. It then uses a pretrained NLI model to classify each candidate as a premise (entailment) or contradiction. By filtering NLI-identified relationships with attention-based saliency scores, our method efficiently isolates the most significant semantic relationships for any given claim in a text.

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