Over the last two decades, determining the similarity between words as well as between their meanings, that is, word senses, has been proven to be of vital importance in the field of …
We present SimLex-999, a gold standard resource for evaluating distributional semantic models that improves on existing resources in several important ways. First, in contrast to …
Context-predicting models (more commonly known as embeddings or neural language models) are the new kids on the distributional semantics block. Despite the buzz …
Abstract Linked Open Data has been recognized as a valuable source for background information in many data mining and information retrieval tasks. However, most of the …
Owing to the need for a deep understanding of linguistic items, semantic representation is considered to be one of the fundamental components of several applications in Natural …
Accurate semantic representation models are essential in text mining applications. For a successful application of the text mining process, the text representation adopted must keep …
Online communities generate massive volumes of natural language data and the social sciences continue to learn how to best make use of this new information and the technology …
J Hoffart, S Seufert, DB Nguyen, M Theobald… - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Measuring the semantic relatedness between two entities is the basis for numerous tasks in IR, NLP, and Web-based knowledge extraction. This paper focuses on disambiguating …
In this shared task, we present evaluations on two related tasks Paraphrase Identification (PI) and Semantic Textual Similarity (SS) systems for the Twitter data. Given a pair of …