Sentence Similarity Measurement with Convolutional Neural Networks Using Semantic and Syntactic Features

Calculating the semantic similarity of two sentences is an extremely challenging problem.We propose a solution based on convolutional neural networks(CNN)using semantic and syntactic features of sentences.The similarity score between two sentences is computed as follows.First,given a sentence,two matrices are constructed accordingly,which are called the syntax model input matrix and the semantic model input matrix;one records some syntax features,and the other records some semantic features.By experimenting with different arrangements of representing the syntactic and semantic features of the sentences in the matrices,we adopt the most effective way of constructing the matrices.Second,these two matrices are given to two neural networks,which are called the sentence model and the semantic model,respectively.The convolution process of the neural networks of the two models is carried out in multiple perspectives.The outputs of the two models are combined as a vector,which is the representation of the sentence.Third,given the representation vectors of two sentences,the similarity score of these representations is computed by a layer in the CNN.Experiment results show that our algorithm(SSCNN)surpasses the performance MPCPP,which noticeably the best recent work of using CNN for sentence similarity computation.Comparing with MPCNN,the convolution computation in SSCNN is considerably simpler.Based on the results of this work,we suggest that by further utilization of semantic and syntactic features,the performance of sentence similarity measurements has considerable potentials to be improved in the future.

Information mining and similarity computation for semi-/un-structured sentences from the social data

In recent years,with the development of the social Internet of Things(IoT),all kinds of data accumulated on the network.These data,which contain a lot of social information and opinions.However,these data are rarely fully analyzed,which is a major obstacle to the intelligent development of the social IoT.In this paper,we propose a sentence similarity analysis model to analyze the similarity in people’s opinions on hot topics in social media and news pages.Most of these data are unstructured or semi-structured sentences,so the accuracy of sentence similarity analysis largely determines the model’s performance.For the purpose of improving accuracy,we propose a novel method of sentence similarity computation to extract the syntactic and semantic information of the semi-structured and unstructured sentences.We mainly consider the subjects,predicates and objects of sentence pairs and use Stanford Parser to classify the dependency relation triples to calculate the syntactic and semantic similarity between two sentences.Finally,we verify the performance of the model with the Microsoft Research Paraphrase Corpus(MRPC),which consists of 4076 pairs of training sentences and 1725 pairs of test sentences,and most of the data came from the news of social data.Extensive simulations demonstrate that our method outperforms other state-of-the-art methods regarding the correlation coefficient and the mean deviation.

Designing an automated FAQ answering system for farmers based on hybrid strategies

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop an automated frequently asked question(FAQ) answering system for farmers. This paper presents an approach for calculating the similarity between Chinese sentences based on hybrid strategies.Design/methodology/approach: We analyzed the factors influencing the successful matching between a user's question and a question-answer(QA) pair in the FAQ database. Our approach is based on a combination of multiple factors. Experiments were conducted to test the performance of our method.Findings: Experiments show that this proposed method has higher accuracy. Compared with similarity calculation based on TF-IDF,the sentence surface forms and the semantic relations,the proposed method based on hybrid strategies has a superior performance in precision,recall and F-measure value.Research limitations: The FAQ answering system is only capable of meeting users' demand for text retrieval at present. In the future,the system needs to be improved to meet users' demand for retrieving images and videos.Practical implications: This FAQ answering system will help farmers utilize agricultural information resources more efficiently.Originality/value: We design the algorithms for calculating similarity of Chinese sentences based on hybrid strategies,which integrate the question surface similarity,the question semantic similarity and the question-answer similarity based on latent semantic analysis(LSA) to find answers to a user's question.

Question-answering system based on concepts and statistics

Question-answering systems provide short answers with the use of available information.The implementation mechanism for a question answering system is presented in this paper and is based on concepts and statistics.The system determines the question and focuses on the answer types,making different conceptual expansions for different questions.It applies the latent semantic indexing(LSI)method to retrieve relevant passages.It uses matching algorithms to find a match between questions and sentences stored in a database.It also extracts answers from a frequently asked questions(FAQ)database by finding matching or similar sentences.The answering ability of the system has been improved with the use of LSI and FAQ.The question-answering system introduced in Chinese universities is a developed and proven system capable of precise results.