A fast and efficient semantic short text similarity metric

David Croft, Simon Coupland, Jethro Shell, Stephen Brown

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Abstract

The semantic comparison of short sections of text is an emerging aspect of Natural Language Processing (NLP). In this paper we present a novel Short Text Semantic Similarity (STSS) method, Lightweight Semantic Similarity (LSS), to address the issues that arise with sparse text representation. The proposed approach captures the semantic information contained when comparing text to process the similarity. The methodology combines semantic term similarities with a vector similarity method used within statistical analysis. A modification of the term vectors using synset similarity values addresses issues that are encountered with sparse text. LSS is shown to be comparable to current semantic similarity approaches, LSA and STASIS, whilst having a lower computational footprint.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication13th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI), 2013
PublisherIEEE
Pages221-227
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)978­1­4799­1568­2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event13th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI) 2013 - University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
Duration: 9 Sep 2013 → 11 Sep 2013
Conference number: 13
http://ukci2013.cs.surrey.ac.uk/

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Workshop13th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI) 2013
Abbreviated titleUKCI 2013
CountryUnited Kingdom
CityGuildford
Period9/09/13 → 11/09/13
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Keywords

  • Vectors
  • Semantics
  • Measurment
  • Natural language processing
  • Educational institutions
  • Media
  • Electronic mail

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Croft, D., Coupland, S., Shell, J., & Brown, S. (2013). A fast and efficient semantic short text similarity metric. In 13th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI), 2013 (pp. 221-227). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/UKCI.2013.6651309

A fast and efficient semantic short text similarity metric. / Croft, David; Coupland, Simon; Shell, Jethro; Brown, Stephen.

13th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI), 2013 . IEEE, 2013. p. 221-227.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding

Croft, D, Coupland, S, Shell, J & Brown, S 2013, A fast and efficient semantic short text similarity metric. in 13th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI), 2013 . IEEE, pp. 221-227, 13th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI) 2013, Guildford, United Kingdom, 9/09/13. https://doi.org/10.1109/UKCI.2013.6651309
Croft D, Coupland S, Shell J, Brown S. A fast and efficient semantic short text similarity metric. In 13th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI), 2013 . IEEE. 2013. p. 221-227 https://doi.org/10.1109/UKCI.2013.6651309
Croft, David ; Coupland, Simon ; Shell, Jethro ; Brown, Stephen. / A fast and efficient semantic short text similarity metric. 13th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI), 2013 . IEEE, 2013. pp. 221-227
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