An Information-Theoretic Definition of Similarity
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We propose to analyse semantic similarity in comparable text by matching syntactic trees and labeling the alignments according to one of five semantic similarity relations. We present a Memory-based Graph Matcher (MBGM) that performs both tasks simultaneously as a combination of exhaustive pairwise classification using a memory-based learner, followed by global optimization of the alignments using a combinatorial optimization algorithm. The method is evaluated on a monolingual treebank consisting of comparable Dutch news texts. Results show that it performs substantially above the baseline and close to the human reference.