rte-three-outcomes-entailment-contradiction-independence

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Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) has exactly three possible outcomes for a pair of text fragments: entailment, contradiction (entailment of the negation), or independence.

Summary

When comparing two pieces of text, there are only three things that can be true: one proves the other, one disproves the other, or they simply have no bearing on each other. This closed set means any tool or system built on top of these comparisons never has to invent a fourth category — it just has to decide which of the three applies.