DT_Team at SemEval-2017 Task 1: Semantic Similarity Using Alignments, Sentence-Level Embeddings and Gaussian Mixture Model Output
Nabin Maharjan, Rajendra Banjade, Dipesh Gautam, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Vasile Rus · 2017
We describe our system (DT Team) submitted at SemEval-2017 Task 1, Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) challenge for English (Track 5).We developed three different models with various features including similarity scores calculated using word and chunk alignments, word/sentence embeddings, and Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM).The correlation between our system's output and the human judgments were up to 0.8536, which is more than 10% above baseline, and almost as good as the best performing system which was at 0.8547 correlation (the difference is just about 0.1%).Also, our system produced leading results when evaluated with a separate STS benchmark dataset.The word alignment and sentence embeddings based features were found to be very effective.