UKP: Computing semantic textual similarity by combining multiple content similarity measures

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 435-440

  Bär, Daniel ^a   Biemann, Chris ^b   Gurevych, Iryna ^a,b   Zesch, Torsten ^a,b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b German Institute for Educational Research and Educational Information   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; LINEAR REGRESSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

COMMON SUBSEQUENCE; CONTENT SIMILARITY; EXPLICIT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SUBSTITUTION SYSTEMS; TEXTUAL SIMILARITIES;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 85007314681     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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