Natural Logic at the Core: Dynamic Rewards for Entailment Tree Generation

Entailment trees are essential for enhancing interpretability and transparency in tasks like question answering and natural language understanding.However, existing approaches often lack logical consistency, as they rely on static reward structures or ignore the intricate dependencies within multi-step reasoning.To address these limitations, we propose a method that integrates natural logic principles into reinforcement learning, enabling dynamic reward computation to guide entailment tree generation.Our approach ensures logical consistency across reasoning steps while improving interpretability and generalization.Experiments on EntailmentBank demonstrate significant improvements over state-of-the-art methods, highlighting the effectiveness of natural logic in structured reasoning.

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2025-01-01
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https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.893
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Natural Language Processing Techniques
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Natural Logic at the Core: Dynamic Rewards for Entailment Tree Generation

Bing Qin, Hengwei Zhao, Jihao Shi, Ting Liu et al.
Natural Language Processing Techniques
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Natural Logic at the Core: Dynamic Rewards for Entailment Tree Generation

Bing Qin, Hengwei Zhao, Jihao Shi, Ting Liu, Kai Xiong, Xiao Ding
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Entailment trees are essential for enhancing interpretability and transparency in tasks like question answering and natural language understanding.However, existing approaches often lack logical consistency, as they rely on static reward structures or ignore the intricate dependencies within multi-step reasoning.To address these limitations, we propose a method that integrates natural logic principles into reinforcement learning, enabling dynamic reward computation to guide entailment tree generation.Our approach ensures logical consistency across reasoning steps while improving interpretability and generalization.Experiments on EntailmentBank demonstrate significant improvements over state-of-the-art methods, highlighting the effectiveness of natural logic in structured reasoning.

Harbin Institute of Technology (CN)
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Openalex Percentile: Top 90%
Natural Language Processing Techniques
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