The evaluation of sentence similarity measures

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5182 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 305-316

  Achananuparp, Palakorn ^a   Hu, Xiaohua ^a,b   Shen, Xiajiong ^b  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b Hehan University ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Paraphrase recognition; Sentence similarity; Textual entailment recognition

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS.; DATA SETS; DATA WAREHOUSING; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; MICROSOFT RESEARCH; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PARAPHRASE CORPUS; PARAPHRASE RECOGNITION; QUESTION ANSWERING; SENTENCE SIMILARITY; SIMILARITY MEASURING; SIMILARITY SCORES; TEXT SIMILARITY; TEXT SUMMARIZATION; TEXT-MINING; TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT; TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT RECOGNITION;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 52949135206     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85836-2_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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