Learning the Impact and Behavior of Syntactic Structure: A Case Study in Semantic Textual Similarity
Ngoc Phuoc An Vo, Octavian Popescu · Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing · 2015
We present a case study on the role of syntactic structures towards resolving the Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) task. Although various approaches have been proposed, the research of using syntactic information to determine the semantic similarity is a relatively under-researched area. At the level of syntactic structure, it is not clear how significant the syntactic structure contributes to the overall accuracy of the task. In this paper, we analyze the impact of syntactic structure towards the overall performance and its behavior in different score ranges of the STS seman-