Best Participating System in SemEval-2012 STS Task

The UKP system performed best in the Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) task at SemEval-2012 in two out of three metrics.

The UKP system participated in the pilot Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) task at the workshop series on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2012), which will be associated with the new *SEM, First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, and co-located with NAACL, Montreal, Canada. The system uses a simple log-linear regression model, trained on the training data, to combine multiple text similarity measures of varying complexity. Our system performed best in two out of three metrics.

For details, please refer to the corresponding paper by Daniel Bär, Chris Biemann, Iryna Gurevych, and Torsten Zesch: “UKP: Computing Semantic Textual Similarity by Combining Multiple Content Similarity Measures”.