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Semantic textual similarity is a measure of the degree to which two texts are semantically equivalent, or have the same meaning. It is often used in natural language processing and machine learning applications to determine the similarity between two pieces of text. This can be useful for tasks such as information retrieval, document classification, and text summarization. There are various methods and techniques for measuring semantic textual similarity, including lexical analysis, word embedding models, and semantic networks. These approaches can help to capture the meaning and context of words and phrases in a text, and compare them to other texts in order to determine the degree of similarity.
Semantic textual similarity can be used in dialog systems to determine the degree of relatedness between the user’s input and the system’s responses. This can help the system determine how well it is able to understand and respond to the user’s intent, and can be used to improve the system’s performance over time. For example, if the system determines that the user’s input and the system’s response are semantically similar, it may conclude that the system has understood the user’s intent and provided an appropriate response. On the other hand, if the system determines that the user’s input and the system’s response are not semantically similar, it may conclude that the system has misunderstood the user’s intent and may need to rephrase its response or seek additional clarification.
- Corpus similarity refers to the similarity of two sets of texts, or corpora.
- Document similarity refers to the similarity between two individual texts, or documents.
- Semantic similarity refers to the degree of meaning similarity between two words or phrases.
- Text similarity refers to the overall similarity between two texts, including both their structural and semantic characteristics.
- Textual similarity refers to the similarity between two texts based on their structural characteristics, such as the presence of common words or phrases.
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Deep Neural Networks for Selected Natural Language Processing Tasks
J Martínek – 2019 – dspace5.zcu.cz
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Incorporating domain knowledge into natural language inference on clinical texts
M Lu, Y Fang, F Yan, M Li – IEEE Access, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
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Collective memory shapes the organization of individual memories in the medial prefrontal cortex}}
P Gagnepain, T Vallée, S Heiden, M Decorde… – Nature – perso.limsi.fr
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The evolution of argumentation mining: From models to social media and emerging tools
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Semantic Feature Extraction Using Multi-Sense Embeddings and Lexical Chains
TL Ruas – 2019 – deepblue.lib.umich.edu
Page 1. Semantic Feature Extraction Using Multi-Sense Embeddings and Lexical Chains by Terry L. Ruas A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Computer and …
Enabling deaf or hard of hearing accessibility in live theaters through virtual reality
MRS Teófilo – 2019 – tede.ufam.edu.br
… Technologies as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Sentence Prediction (SP), Semantic Textual Similarity (STS), which was used to Speech … or conversing with speech dialogue systems, is relatively easy. Recognizing the speech of two Page 23. Chapter 2. Background 22 …