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Penn: Using word similarities to better estimate sentence similarity

  • University of Pennsylvania

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Abstract

We present the Penn system for SemEval-2012 Task 6, computing the degree of semantic equivalence between two sentences. We explore the contributions of different vector models for computing sentence and word similarity: Collobert and Weston embeddings as well as two novel approaches, namely eigenwords and selectors. These embeddings provide different measures of distributional similarity between words, and their contexts. We used regression to combine the different similarity measures, and found that each provides partially independent predictive signal above baseline models.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2012
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages679-683
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781937284220
StatePublished - 2012
Event1st Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, *SEM 2012 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: Jun 7 2012Jun 8 2012

Publication series

Name*SEM 2012 - 1st Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
Volume2

Conference

Conference1st Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, *SEM 2012
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period06/7/1206/8/12

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