Measuring short text semantic similarity using multiple measurements

  • Tian Tian Zhu*
  • , Man Lan
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a Support Vector Regression (SVR) system to measure the semantic similarity of short texts by com-bining multiple similarity measurements, i.e., string similarity,knowledge-based similarity, corpus-based similarity, syntactic de-pendency similarity, number similarity and machine translation similarity. Experiments on the five data sets of SemEvai 2012 Semantic Text Similarity (STS) task show that our system performs best on two data sets, and second best on another two data sets .

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages808-813
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479902576
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event12th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2013 - Tianjin, China
Duration: 14 Jul 201317 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics
Volume2
ISSN (Print)2160-133X
ISSN (Electronic)2160-1348

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityTianjin
Period14/07/1317/07/13

Keywords

  • Semantic similarity
  • Short text
  • Support Vector Regression

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