This paper describes the results of the participation of The University of Melbourne in the
community question-answering (CQA) task of SemEval 2016 (Task 3-B). We obtained a …

Identification of short text similarity (STS) is a high-utility NLP task with applications in a
variety of domains. We explore adaptation of STS algorithms to different target domains and …

Abstract This paper describes The University of Melbourne NLP group submission to the
Crosslingual Textual Entailment shared task, our first tentative attempt at the task. The …

Short snippets of written text play a central role in our day-to-day communication—SMS and
email messages, news headlines, tweets, and image captions are some of the many forms …

Real and Misflagged Duplicate Question Detection in Community Question-Answering Page 1
Real and Misflagged Duplicate Question Detection in Community Question-Answering A thesis …

Short texts play a major role in our day-to-day communication in many forms such as emails,
chat, tweets, news headlines, image captions and many more. Many techniques have been …

Recently, the task of measuring semantic similarity between given texts has drawn much
attention from the Natural Language Processing community. Especially, the task becomes …

Many words in any natural language have more than one meaning. Most of the work related
to understanding the word meaning in context is based on word sense disambiguation …