Duluth: Measuring Cross–Level Semantic Similarity with First and Second–Order Dictionary Overlaps

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Abstract

This paper describes the Duluth systems that participated in the Cross–Level Semantic Similarity task of SemEval–2014. These three systems were all unsupervised and relied on a dictionary melded together from various sources, and used first–order (Lesk) and second–order (Vector) overlaps to measure similarity. The first–order overlaps fared well according to Spearman’s correlation (top 5) but less so relative to Pearson’s. Most systems performed at comparable levels for both Spearman’s and Pearson’s measure, which suggests the Duluth approach is potentially unique among the participating systems.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2014 - co-located with the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2014, Proceedings
EditorsPreslav Nakov, Torsten Zesch
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages247-251
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781941643242
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2014 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: Aug 23 2014Aug 24 2014

Publication series

Name8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2014 - co-located with the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2014, Proceedings

Conference

Conference8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2014
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityDublin
Period8/23/148/24/14

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