TY - GEN
T1 - Sbdlrhmn
T2 - 1st Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, *SEM 2012
AU - AbdelRahman, Samir
AU - Blake, Catherine
N1 - National Science Foundation under Grant No. (1115774).
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this paper, we describe the system architecture used in the Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) task 6 pilot challenge. The goal of this challenge is to accurately identify five levels of semantic similarity between two sentences: equivalent, mostly equivalent, roughly equivalent, not equivalent but sharing the same topic and no equivalence. Our participations were two systems. The first system (rule-based) combines both semantic and syntax features to arrive at the overall similarity. The proposed rules enable the system to adequately handle domain knowledge gaps that are inherent when working with knowledge resources. As such one of its main goals, the system suggests a set of domain-free rules to help the human annotator in scoring semantic equivalence of two sentences. The second system is our baseline in which we use the Cosine Similarity between the words in each sentence pair.
AB - In this paper, we describe the system architecture used in the Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) task 6 pilot challenge. The goal of this challenge is to accurately identify five levels of semantic similarity between two sentences: equivalent, mostly equivalent, roughly equivalent, not equivalent but sharing the same topic and no equivalence. Our participations were two systems. The first system (rule-based) combines both semantic and syntax features to arrive at the overall similarity. The proposed rules enable the system to adequately handle domain knowledge gaps that are inherent when working with knowledge resources. As such one of its main goals, the system suggests a set of domain-free rules to help the human annotator in scoring semantic equivalence of two sentences. The second system is our baseline in which we use the Cosine Similarity between the words in each sentence pair.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84889847412
T3 - *SEM 2012 - 1st Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
SP - 536
EP - 542
BT - Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2012
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Y2 - 7 June 2012 through 8 June 2012
ER -