NTNU: Measuring Semantic Similarity with Sublexical Feature Representations and Soft Cardinality

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 448-453

  Lynum, André ^a   Pakray, Partha ^a   Gambäck, Björn ^a   Jimenez, Sergio ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

BASELINE SYSTEMS; CARDINALITIES; COMPETITIVE PERFORMANCE; DISTANCE METRICS; FEATURE REPRESENTATION; N-GRAMS; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE REGRESSIONS; TEXTUAL SIMILARITIES; WEIGHTED MEAN;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84994185565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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