RTE5 - Ablation Tests

Publicly available Resources

Resource	Type	Author	Brief description	RTE Users*	Usage info
WordNet	Lexical DB	Princeton University	Lexical database of English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs	21 - RTE4 3 - RTE3	Users
Verbnet	Lexical DB	University of Colorado Boulder	Lexicon for English verbs organized into classes extending Levin (1993) classes through refinement and addition of subclasses to achieve syntactic and semantic coherence among members of a class	2 - RTE4 2 - RTE3	Users
VerbOcean	Lexical DB	Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California	Broad-coverage semantic network of verbs	4 - RTE4 1 - RTE3	Users
FrameNet	Lexical DB	ICSI (International Computer Science Institute) - Berkley University	Lexical resource for English words, based on frame semantics (valences) and supported by corpus evidence	1 - RTE4 1 - RTE3	Users
NomBank	Lexical DB	New York University	Lexical resource containing syntactic frames for nouns, extracted from annotated corpora	1 - RTE4 2 - RTE3	Users
PropBank	Lexical DB	University of Colorado Boulder	Lexical resource containing syntactic frames for verbs, extracted from annotated corpora	1 - RTE4 2 - RTE3	Users
Nomlex Plus	Lexical DB	New York University	Dictionary of English nominalizations: it describes the allowed complements for a nominalization and relates the nominal complements to the arguments of the corresponding verb	1 - RTE4 0 - RTE3	Users
Wikipedia	Encyclopedia		Free encyclopedia. Used for extraction of lexical-semantic rules (from its more structured parts), named entity recognition, geographical information etc.	3 - RTE4 0 - RTE3	Users
TEASE Collection	Collection of Entailment Rules	Bar-Ilan University	Output of the TEASE algorithm	0 - RTE4 0 - RTE3	Users
BADC Acronym and Abbreviation List	Word List	BADC (British Atmospheric Data Centre)	Acronym and Abbreviation List	1 - RTE4 0 - RTE3	Users
Acronym Guide	Word List	Acronym-Guide.com	Acronym and Abbreviation Lists for English, branched in thematic directories	1 - RTE4 0 - RTE3	Users
Dekang Lin’s Thesaurus	Thesaurus	University of Alberta	Thesaurus automatically constructed using a parsed corpus, based on distributional similarity scores	1 - RTE4 0 - RTE3	Users
Roget's Thesaurus	Thesaurus	Peter Mark Roget (Electronic version distributed by University of Chicago)	Roget's Thesaurus is a widely-used English thesaurus, created by Dr. Peter Mark Roget in 1805. The original edition had 15,000 words, and each new edition has been larger. The electronic edition (version 1.02) is made available by University of Chicago.	0 - RTE4 1 - RTE3	Users
Web1T 5-grams	Word list	Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania; Google Inc.	Data set containing English word n-grams and their observed frequency counts. The n-gram counts were generated from approximately 1 trillion word tokens of text from publicly accessible Web pages	1 - RTE4 0 - RTE3	Users
GNIS - Geographic Names Information System	Gazetteer	USGS (United States Geological Survey)	Database containing the Federal and national standard toponyms for USA, associated areas and Antarctica	1 - RTE4 0 - RTE3	Users
Geonames	Gazetteer		Database containing eight million geographical names. It is integrating geographical data such as names of places in various languages, elevation, population and others from various sources.	1 - RTE4 0 - RTE3	Users
Sekine's Paraphrase Database	Collection of paraphrases	Department of Computer Science, New York University	Data-base created using Sekine's method, NOT cleaned up by human. It includes 19,975 sets of paraphrases with 191,572 phrases.	0 - RTE4 0 - RTE3	Users
Microsoft Research Paraphrase Corpus	Collection of paraphrases	Microsoft Research	Text file containing 5800 pairs of sentences which have been extracted from news sources on the web, along with human annotations indicating whether each pair captures a paraphrase/semantic equivalence relationship.	0 - RTE4 0 - RTE3	Users
Downward entailing operators	Collection of entailing operators	Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca NY	System output of an unsupervised algorithm recovering many Downward Entailing operators, like 'doubt'.	0 - RTE4 0 - RTE3	Users
WikiRules!	Lexical Reference rule-base	Bar-Ilan University	Extraction of lexical reference rules from the text body (first sentence) and from metadata (links, redirects, parentheses) of Wikipedia	1 - RTE4 0 - RTE3	Users
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