UoW: Multi-task Learning Gaussian Process for Semantic Textual Similarity

8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2014 - co-located with the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2014, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 779-784

  Rios, Miguel ^a   Specia, Lucia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; LEARNING APPROACH; MODEL SEMANTICS; MULTITASK LEARNING; PERFORMANCE; ROBUST PERFORMANCE; TEXTUAL SIMILARITIES; TRAINING DATA;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84948766519     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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