Syntactic and semantic kernels for short text pair categorization

  • Authors:
  • Alessandro Moschitti

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Trento, POVO (TN) - Italy

  • Venue:
  • EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Automatic detection of general relations between short texts is a complex task that cannot be carried out only relying on language models and bag-of-words. Therefore, learning methods to exploit syntax and semantics are required. In this paper, we present a new kernel for the representation of shallow semantic information along with a comprehensive study on kernel methods for the exploitation of syntactic/semantic structures for short text pair categorization. Our experiments with Support Vector Machines on question/answer classification show that our kernels can be used to greatly improve system accuracy.