UMBC_EBIQUITY-CORE: Semantic Textual Similarity Systems

*SEM 2013 - 2nd Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 44-52

  Han, Lushan ^b   Kashyap, Abhay ^b   Finin, Tim ^b   Mayfield, James ^a   Weese, Jonathan ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; PENALTY TERM; SETS OF FEATURES; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION MODELS; TEXT SIMILARITY; TEXTUAL SIMILARITIES; WORD SIMILARITY; WORDNET;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84987731777     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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