TeamZ: Measuring Semantic Textual Similarity for Spanish Using an Overlap-Based Approach

SemEval-2015 Task 2: Semantic Textual Similarity, English, Spanish and Pilot on Interpretability

CompiLIG at SemEval-2017 Task 1: Cross-Language Plagiarism Detection Methods for Semantic Textual Similarity

We present our submitted systems for Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) Track 4 at SemEval-2017. Given a pair of Spanish-English sentences, each system must estimate their semantic similarity by a score between 0 and 5. I…

L2F/INESC-ID at SemEval-2017 Tasks 1 and 2: Lexical and semantic features in word and textual similarity

This paper describes our approach to the SemEval-2017 {``}Semantic Textual Similarity{''} and {``}Multilingual Word Similarity{''} tasks. In the former, we test our approach in both English and Spanish, and use a linguis…

Evaluating Multimodal Representations on Sentence Similarity: vSTS, Visual Semantic Textual Similarity Dataset

In this paper we introduce vSTS, a new dataset for measuring textual similarity of sentences using multimodal information. The dataset is comprised by images along with its respectively textual captions. We describe the …

Improving Multilingual Semantic Textual Similarity with Shared Sentence Encoder for Low-resource Languages

Measuring the semantic similarity between two sentences (or Semantic Textual Similarity - STS) is fundamental in many NLP applications. Despite the remarkable results in supervised settings with adequate labeling, little…