4 results for “Allan B. Silva”

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesDistributional Models with Syntactic Contexts for the Measurement of Word Similarity in Brazilian PortugueseEduardo E. Berlitz, Denis A. Araujo, Allan B. Silva et al.The similarity between words constitutes significant support to tasks in natural language processing. Several works use Lexical resources such as WordNet for semantic similarity and synonym identification. Nevertheless, words out-of-vocabulary or missing links between senses are perceived problems of this approach. Distributional-based proposals like word embeddings have successfully been used to meet such problems, but the lack of contextual information … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 15, Issue 10 · 31 May 2019 · 6,824 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesEnhancing Brazilian Portuguese Textual Entailment Recognition with a Hybrid ApproachAllan de Barcelos Silva, Sandro José RigoPrevious work on textual entailment has not fully exploited aspects of deep linguistic relations, which have been shown as containing important information for entailment identification. In this study, we present a new method to compute semantic textual similarity between two sentences. Our proposal relies on the integration of a set of deep linguistic relations, lexical aspects and distributed representational resources. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 14, Issue 7 · 12 Jul 2018 · 8,934 accessesView PDF Cite