Textual Entailment — Natural Language Inference (NLI)

Textual entailment, also known as natural language inference (NLI), is the natural-language-processing task of deciding whether one piece of text (the premise) entails a second piece of text (the hypothesis), contradicts it, or is neutral with respect to it. Formalised by the PASCAL Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge (Dagan, Glickman & Magnini, 2006) and broadened by the MultiNLI corpus (Williams, Nangia & Bowman, 2018), it underpins question answering and fact-verification pipelines.