LIM-LIG at SemEval-2017 Task1: Enhancing the Semantic Similarity for Arabic Sentences with Vectors Weighting

El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Jérémy Ferrero, Didier Schwab


Abstract
This article describes our proposed system named LIM-LIG. This system is designed for SemEval 2017 Task1: Semantic Textual Similarity (Track1). LIM-LIG proposes an innovative enhancement to word embedding-based model devoted to measure the semantic similarity in Arabic sentences. The main idea is to exploit the word representations as vectors in a multidimensional space to capture the semantic and syntactic properties of words. IDF weighting and Part-of-Speech tagging are applied on the examined sentences to support the identification of words that are highly descriptive in each sentence. LIM-LIG system achieves a Pearson’s correlation of 0.74633, ranking 2nd among all participants in the Arabic monolingual pairs STS task organized within the SemEval 2017 evaluation campaign
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S17-2017
Volume:
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)
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August
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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Steven Bethard, Marine Carpuat, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad, Daniel Cer, David Jurgens
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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134–138
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https://aclanthology.org/S17-2017
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S17-2017
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El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Jérémy Ferrero, and Didier Schwab. 2017. LIM-LIG at SemEval-2017 Task1: Enhancing the Semantic Similarity for Arabic Sentences with Vectors Weighting. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017), pages 134–138, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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LIM-LIG at SemEval-2017 Task1: Enhancing the Semantic Similarity for Arabic Sentences with Vectors Weighting (Nagoudi et al., SemEval 2017)
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