IRIT: Textual Similarity Combining Conceptual Similarity with an N-Gram Comparison Method
Davide Buscaldi, Ronan Tournier, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Josiane Mothe · Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics · 2012
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.