WordNet: a lexical database for English
Communications of the ACM
An Information-Theoretic Definition of Similarity
ICML '98 Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Machine Learning
Verbs semantics and lexical selection
ACL '94 Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Feature-rich part-of-speech tagging with a cyclic dependency network
NAACL '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology - Volume 1
Answering questions with an n-gram based passage retrieval engine
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
SemEval-2012 task 6: a pilot on semantic textual similarity
SemEval '12 Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics - Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
N-gram vs. keyword-based passage retrieval for question answering
CLEF'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Cross-Language Evaluation Forum: evaluation of multilingual and multi-modal information retrieval
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This paper describes the participation of the IRIT team to SemEval 2012 Task 6 (Semantic Textual Similarity). The method used consists of a n-gram based comparison method combined with a conceptual similarity measure that uses WordNet to calculate the similarity between a pair of concepts.