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IUCM at SemEval-2018 Task 11: Similar-Topic Texts as a Comprehension Knowledge Source

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Research Output:
Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter
Article in proceedings
Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 1068-1072

Publication milestones

  • Published - 2018

Publication status

Published - 2018

Publisher

Association for Computational Linguistics, United States

Publication IDs

  • Scopus: 85122335796

Host publication title

Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2018)

Abstract

This paper describes the IUCM entry at SemEval-2018 Task 11, on machine comprehension using commonsense knowledge. First, clustering and topic modeling are used to divide given texts into topics. Then, during the answering phase, other texts of the same topic are retrieved and used as commonsense knowledge. Finally, the answer is selected. While clustering itself shows good results, finding an answer proves to be more challenging. This paper reports the results of system evaluation and suggests potential improvements.

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Title

The 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

Event type

Workshop

Degree of recognition

International event

Date

05/06/2018 - 06/06/2018

Location

New OrleansUnited States