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Recent work on language modelling has shifted focus from count-based models to neural models. In these works, the words in each sentence are always considered in a left-to-right order. In this paper we show how we can improve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Piotr Mirowski , Andreas Vlachos

We investigate the task of assessing sentence-level prompt relevance in learner essays. Various systems using word overlap, neural embeddings and neural compositional models are evaluated on two datasets of learner writing. We propose a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Marek Rei , Ronan Cummins

Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) is the basis of many applications in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Our system combines convolution and recurrent neural networks to measure the semantic similarity of sentences. It uses a convolution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Elvys Linhares Pontes , Stéphane Huet , Andréa Carneiro Linhares , Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno

We describe an automated method for identifying classes of morphologically related words in an on-line dictionary, and for linking individual senses in the derived form to one or more senses in the base form by means of morphological…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Joseph Pentheroudakis , Lucy Vanderwende , Microsoft Corporation

Applications such as textual entailment, plagiarism detection or document clustering rely on the notion of semantic similarity, and are usually approached with dimension reduction techniques like LDA or with embedding-based neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Ahmed Sabir , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Lluís Padró

Most words are ambiguous--i.e., they convey distinct meanings in different contexts--and even the meanings of unambiguous words are context-dependent. Both phenomena present a challenge for NLP. Recently, the advent of contextualized word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Sean Trott , Benjamin Bergen

The computation of relatedness between two fragments of text in an automated manner requires taking into account a wide range of factors pertaining to the meaning the two fragments convey, and the pairwise relations between their words.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-23 George Tsatsaronis , Iraklis Varlamis , Michalis Vazirgiannis

We review the task of Sentence Pair Scoring, popular in the literature in various forms - viewed as Answer Sentence Selection, Semantic Text Scoring, Next Utterance Ranking, Recognizing Textual Entailment, Paraphrasing or e.g. a component…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Petr Baudiš , Jan Pichl , Tomáš Vyskočil , Jan Šedivý

Existing methods to measure sentence similarity are faced with two challenges: (1) labeled datasets are usually limited in size, making them insufficient to train supervised neural models; (2) there is a training-test gap for unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Xiaofei Sun , Yuxian Meng , Xiang Ao , Fei Wu , Tianwei Zhang , Jiwei Li , Chun Fan

Many NLP tasks require to automatically identify the most significant words in a text. In this work, we derive word significance from models trained to solve semantic task: Natural Language Inference and Paraphrase Identification. Using an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Dávid Javorský , Ondřej Bojar , François Yvon

The meaning of a sentence is a function of the relations that hold between its words. We instantiate this relational view of semantics in a series of neural models based on variants of relation networks (RNs) which represent a set of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Lei Yu , Cyprien de Masson d'Autume , Chris Dyer , Phil Blunsom , Lingpeng Kong , Wang Ling

Sentence similarity is considered the basis of many natural language tasks such as information retrieval, question answering and text summarization. The semantic meaning between compared text fragments is based on the words semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Issa Atoum , Ahmed Otoom , Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer

Target-dependent sentiment classification remains a challenge: modeling the semantic relatedness of a target with its context words in a sentence. Different context words have different influences on determining the sentiment polarity of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Duyu Tang , Bing Qin , Xiaocheng Feng , Ting Liu

Semantic textual relatedness is a broader concept of semantic similarity. It measures the extent to which two chunks of text convey similar meaning or topics, or share related concepts or contexts. This notion of relatedness can be applied…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Sanad Malaysha , Mustafa Jarrar , Mohammed Khalilia

Calculating the semantic similarity between sentences is a long dealt problem in the area of natural language processing. The semantic analysis field has a crucial role to play in the research related to the text analytics. The semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Atish Pawar , Vijay Mago

This study is to review the approaches used for measuring sentences similarity. Measuring similarity between natural language sentences is a crucial task for many Natural Language Processing applications such as text classification,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Mamdouh Farouk

Semantic relatedness between words is one of the core concepts in natural language processing, thus making semantic evaluation an important task. In this paper, we present a semantic model evaluation dataset: SimRelUz - a collection of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Ulugbek Salaev , Elmurod Kuriyozov , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

Identifying semantically equivalent sentences is important for many cross-lingual and mono-lingual NLP tasks. Current approaches to semantic equivalence take a loose, sentence-level approach to "equivalence," despite previous evidence that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Shira Wein , Zhuxin Wang , Nathan Schneider

Understanding semantic relations between two texts is crucial for many information and document management tasks, in which one must determine whether the content fully overlaps, is completely superseded by another document, or overlaps only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yehudit Aperstein , Alon Gottlib , Gal Benita , Alexander Apartsin

Recent work has proposed using Large Language Models (LLMs) to quantify narrative flow through a measure called sequentiality, which combines topic and contextual terms. A recent critique argued that the original results were confounded by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Amal Sunny , Advay Gupta , Vishnu Sreekumar