SemEval 2012

110 papers

SAGAN: A Machine Translation Approach for Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment

Julio Castillo, Marina Cardenas

ICT: A Translation based Method for Cross-lingual Textual Entailment

Fandong Meng, Hao Xiong, Qun Liu

DirRelCond3: Detecting Textual Entailment Across Languages With Conditions On Directional Text Relatedness Scores

Alpár Perini

BUAP: Lexical and Semantic Similarity for Cross-lingual Textual Entailment

Darnes Vilariño, David Pinto, Mireya Tovar, Saul León, Esteban Castillo

FBK: Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment Without Translation

Yashar Mehdad, Matteo Negri, José Guilherme C. de Souza

CELI: An Experiment with Cross Language Textual Entailment

Milen Kouylekov, Luca Dini, Alessio Bosca, Marco Trevisan

JU_CSE_NLP: Language Independent Cross-lingual Textual Entailment System

Snehasis Neogi, Partha Pakray, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Alexander Gelbukh

Soft Cardinality + ML: Learning Adaptive Similarity Functions for Cross-lingual Textual Entailment

Sergio Jiménez, Claudia Becerra, Alexander Gelbukh

Penn: Using Word Similarities to better Estimate Sentence Similarity

Sneha Jha, Hansen A. Schwartz, Lyle Ungar

UOW: Semantically Informed Text Similarity

Miguel Rios, Wilker Aziz, Lucia Specia

SAGAN: An approach to Semantic Textual Similarity based on Textual Entailment

Julio Castillo, Paula Estrella

janardhan: Semantic Textual Similarity using Universal Networking Language graph matching

Janardhan Singh, Arindam Bhattacharya, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

University_Of_Sheffield: Two Approaches to Semantic Text Similarity

Sam Biggins, Shaabi Mohammed, Sam Oakley, Luke Stringer, Mark Stevenson

Stanford: Probabilistic Edit Distance Metrics for STS

Mengqiu Wang, Daniel Cer

DERI&UPM: Pushing Corpus Based Relatedness to Similarity: Shared Task System Description

Nitish Aggarwal, Kartik Asooja, Paul Buitelaar

UNT: A Supervised Synergistic Approach to Semantic Text Similarity

Carmen Banea, Samer Hassan, Michael Mohler, Rada Mihalcea

FCC: Three Approaches for Semantic Textual Similarity

Maya Carrillo, Darnes Vilariño, David Pinto, Mireya Tovar, Saul León

FBK: Machine Translation Evaluation and Word Similarity metrics for Semantic Textual Similarity

José Guilherme Camargo de Souza, Matteo Negri, Yashar Mehdad

SRIUBC: Simple Similarity Features for Semantic Textual Similarity

Eric Yeh, Eneko Agirre

UMCC_DLSI: Multidimensional Lexical-Semantic Textual Similarity

Antonio Fernández, Yoan Gutiérrez, Héctor Dávila, Alexander Chávez, Andy González

Saarland: Vector-based models of semantic textual similarity

Georgiana Dinu, Stefan Thater

UNITOR: Combining Semantic Text Similarity functions through SV Regression

Danilo Croce, Paolo Annesi, Valerio Storch, Roberto Basili

UNIBA: Distributional Semantics for Textual Similarity

Annalina Caputo, Pierpaolo Basile, Giovanni Semeraro

Weiwei: A Simple Unsupervised Latent Semantics based Approach for Sentence Similarity

Weiwei Guo, Mona Diab

sranjans : Semantic Textual Similarity using Maximal Weighted Bipartite Graph Matching

Sumit Bhagwani, Shrutiranjan Satapathy, Harish Karnick

Tiantianzhu7:System Description of Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) in the SemEval-2012 (Task 6)

Tiantian Zhu, Man Lan

JU_CSE_NLP: Multi-grade Classification of Semantic Similarity between Text Pairs

Snehasis Neogi, Partha Pakray, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Alexander Gelbukh

DeepPurple: Estimating Sentence Semantic Similarity using N-gram Regression Models and Web Snippets

Nikos Malandrakis, Elias Iosif, Alexandros Potamianos

Diana McCarthy, Spandana Gella, Siva Reddy

IRIT: Textual Similarity Combining Conceptual Similarity with an N-Gram Comparison Method

Davide Buscaldi, Ronan Tournier, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Josiane Mothe

ATA-Sem: Chunk-based Determination of Semantic Text Similarity

Demetrios Glinos

LIMSI: Learning Semantic Similarity by Selecting Random Word Subsets

Artem Sokolov

Sbdlrhmn: A Rule-based Human Interpretation System for Semantic Textual Similarity Task

Samir AbdelRahman, Catherine Blake

ETS: Discriminative Edit Models for Paraphrase Scoring

Michael Heilman, Nitin Madnani

PolyUCOMP: Combining Semantic Vectors with Skip bigrams for Semantic Textual Similarity

Jian Xu, Qin Lu, Zhengzhong Liu

NJU-Parser: Achievements on Semantic Dependency Parsing

Guangchao Tang, Bin Li, Shuaishuai Xu, Xinyu Dai, Jiajun Chen

ICT:A System Combination for Chinese Semantic Dependency Parsing

Hao Xiong, Qun Liu

Zhou qiaoli: A divide-and-conquer strategy for semantic dependency parsing

Qiaoli Zhou, Ling Zhang, Fei Liu, Dongfeng Cai, Guiping Zhang

BUAP: A First Approximation to Relational Similarity Measuring

Mireya Tovar, J. Alejandro Reyes, Azucena Montes, Darnes Vilariño, David Pinto

Duluth : Measuring Degrees of Relational Similarity with the Gloss Vector Measure of Semantic Relatedness

Ted Pedersen

UNT-SimpRank: Systems for Lexical Simplification Ranking

Ravi Sinha

ANNLOR: A Naïve Notation-system for Lexical Outputs Ranking

Anne-Laure Ligozat, Cyril Grouin, Anne Garcia-Fernandez, Delphine Bernhard

SB: mmSystem - Using Decompositional Semantics for Lexical Simplification

Marilisa Amoia, Massimo Romanelli

UOW-SHEF: SimpLex – Lexical Simplicity Ranking based on Contextual and Psycholinguistic Features

Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Lucia Specia

UAlacant: Using Online Machine Translation for Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment

Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Mikel L. Forcada

HDU: Cross-lingual Textual Entailment with SMT Features

Katharina Wäschle, Sascha Fendrich

UTDHLT: COPACETIC System for Choosing Plausible Alternatives

Travis Goodwin, Bryan Rink, Kirk Roberts, Sanda Harabagiu

UNED: Improving Text Similarity Measures without Human Assessments

Enrique Amigo, Jesús Giménez, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo

Soft Cardinality: A Parameterized Similarity Function for Text Comparison

Sergio Jiménez, Claudia Becerra, Alexander Gelbukh

TakeLab: Systems for Measuring Semantic Text Similarity

Frane Šarić, Goran Glavaš, Vanja Mladen Karan, Jan Šnajder, Bojana Dalbelo Bašić

UKP: Computing Semantic Textual Similarity by Combining Multiple Content Similarity Measures

Daniel Bär, Chris Biemann, Iryna Gurevych, Torsten Zesch

Zhijun Wu: Chinese Semantic Dependency Parsing with Third-Order Features

Zhijun Wu, Xuan Wang, Xinxin Li

MIXCD: System Description for Evaluating Chinese Word Similarity at SemEval-2012

Yingjie Zhang, Bin Li, Xinyu Dai, Jiajun Chen

UTD-SpRL: A Joint Approach to Spatial Role Labeling

Kirk Roberts, Sanda Harabagiu

UTD: Determining Relational Similarity Using Lexical Patterns

Bryan Rink, Sanda Harabagiu

EMNLP@CPH: Is frequency all there is to simplicity?

Anders Johannsen, Hector Martinez, Sigrid Klerke, Anders Søgaard

Semeval-2012 Task 8: Cross-lingual Textual Entailment for Content Synchronization

Matteo Negri, Alessandro Marchetti, Yashar Mehdad, Luisa Bentivogli, Danilo Giampiccolo

SemEval-2012 Task 7: Choice of Plausible Alternatives: An Evaluation of Commonsense Causal Reasoning

Andrew Gordon, Zornitsa Kozareva, Melissa Roemmele

SemEval-2012 Task 6: A Pilot on Semantic Textual Similarity

Eneko Agirre, Daniel Cer, Mona Diab, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre

SemEval-2012 Task 5: Chinese Semantic Dependency Parsing

Wanxiang Che, Meishan Zhang, Yanqiu Shao, Ting Liu

SemEval-2012 Task 4: Evaluating Chinese Word Similarity

Peng Jin, Yunfang Wu

SemEval-2012 Task 3: Spatial Role Labeling

Parisa Kordjamshidi, Steven Bethard, Marie-Francine Moens

SemEval-2012 Task 2: Measuring Degrees of Relational Similarity

David Jurgens, Saif Mohammad, Peter Turney, Keith Holyoak

SemEval-2012 Task 1: English Lexical Simplification

Lucia Specia, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Rada Mihalcea

FBK: Exploiting Phrasal and Contextual Clues for Negation Scope Detection

Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury

UWashington: Negation Resolution using Machine Learning Methods

James Paul White

UMichigan: A Conditional Random Field Model for Resolving the Scope of Negation

Amjad Abu-Jbara, Dragomir Radev

UiO 2: Sequence-labeling Negation Using Dependency Features

Emanuele Lapponi, Erik Velldal, Lilja Øvrelid, Jonathon Read

UiO1: Constituent-Based Discriminative Ranking for Negation Resolution

Jonathon Read, Erik Velldal, Lilja Øvrelid, Stephan Oepen

UGroningen: Negation detection with Discourse Representation Structures

Valerio Basile, Johan Bos, Kilian Evang, Noortje Venhuizen

UConcordia: CLaC Negation Focus Detection at *Sem 2012

Sabine Rosenberg, Sabine Bergler

UCM-2: a Rule-Based Approach to Infer the Scope of Negation via Dependency Parsing

Miguel Ballesteros, Alberto Diaz, Virginia Francisco, Pablo Gervás, Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz

UCM-I: A Rule-based Syntactic Approach for Resolving the Scope of Negation

Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Laura Plaza, Alberto Diaz, Miguel Ballesteros

UABCoRAL: A Preliminary study for Resolving the Scope of Negation

Binod Gyawali, Thamar Solorio

*SEM 2012 Shared Task: Resolving the Scope and Focus of Negation

Roser Morante, Eduardo Blanco

Monolingual Distributional Similarity for Text-to-Text Generation

Juri Ganitkevitch, Benjamin Van Durme, Chris Callison-Burch

#Emotional Tweets

Saif Mohammad

A Probabilistic Lexical Model for Ranking Textual Inferences

Eyal Shnarch, Ido Dagan, Jacob Goldberger

The Effects of Semantic Annotations on Precision Parse Ranking

Andrew MacKinlay, Rebecca Dridan, Diana McCarthy, Timothy Baldwin

Aligning Predicate Argument Structures in Monolingual Comparable Texts: A New Corpus for a New Task

Michael Roth, Anette Frank

An Exact Dual Decomposition Algorithm for Shallow Semantic Parsing with Constraints

Dipanjan Das, André F. T. Martins, Noah A. Smith

Ensemble-based Semantic Lexicon Induction for Semantic Tagging

Ashequl Qadir, Ellen Riloff

An Evaluation of Graded Sense Disambiguation using Word Sense Induction

David Jurgens

Unsupervised Induction of a Syntax-Semantics Lexicon Using Iterative Refinement

Hagen Fürstenau, Owen Rambow

Modelling selectional preferences in a lexical hierarchy

Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Anna Korhonen

Extracting a Semantic Lexicon of French Adjectives from a Large Lexicographic Dictionary

Selja Seppälä, Lucie Barque, Alexis Nasr

Regular polysemy: A distributional model

Gemma Boleda, Sebastian Padó, Jason Utt

Expanding the Range of Tractable Scope-Underspecified Semantic Representations

Mehdi Manshadi, James Allen

An Unsupervised Ranking Model for Noun-Noun Compositionality

Karl Moritz Hermann, Phil Blunsom, Stephen Pulman

Simple and Phrasal Implicatives

Lauri Karttunen

Selecting Corpus-Semantic Models for Neurolinguistic Decoding

Brian Murphy, Partha Talukdar, Tom Mitchell

Annotating Preferences in Negotiation Dialogues

Anaïs Cadilhac, Nicholas Asher, Farah Benamara

Combining resources for MWE-token classification

Richard Fothergill, Timothy Baldwin

Non-atomic Classification to Improve a Semantic Role Labeler for a Low-resource Language

Richard Johansson

Lexical semantic typologies from bilingual corpora — A framework

Steffen Eger

Unsupervised Disambiguation of Image Captions

Wesley May, Sanja Fidler, Afsaneh Fazly, Sven Dickinson, Suzanne Stevenson

Towards a Flexible Semantics: Colour Terms in Collaborative Reference Tasks

Bert Baumgaertner, Raquel Fernández, Matthew Stone

Identifying hypernyms in distributional semantic spaces

Alessandro Lenci, Giulia Benotto

Learning Semantics and Selectional Preference of Adjective-Noun Pairs

Karl Moritz Hermann, Chris Dyer, Phil Blunsom, Stephen Pulman

Sorting out the Most Confusing English Phrasal Verbs

Yuancheng Tu, Dan Roth