Papers by João Rodrigues
Semantic Equivalence Detection: Are Interrogatives Harder than Declaratives? (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Semantic Text Similarity (STS) tasks are often not seen as similar to semantic equivalence detection tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose to assess the performance of different approaches to STS over different types of textual segments. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods differ in performance over different types of textual segments, including declaratives and interrogatives, under conditions of comparability. |
Finely Tuned, 2 Billion Token Based Word Embeddings for Portuguese (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | A distributional semantics model is instrumental to improve the performance of many applications and processing tasks for any language. |
| Approach: | They propose to develop an advanced distributional model for Portuguese with the largest vocabulary and best evaluation scores published so far. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model has the largest vocabulary and the best evaluation scores published so far. |
AIA-BDE: A Corpus of FAQs in Portuguese and their Variations (2020.lrec-1)
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Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, João Ferreira, José Santos, Pedro Fialho, Ricardo Rodrigues, Luisa Coheur, Ana Alves
| Challenge: | a corpus of 380 domain-oriented FAQs in Portuguese is presented . paraphrases or entailed questions are created manually, by humans, or automatically, with Google Translate. |
| Approach: | They present a corpus of 380 domain-oriented FAQs in Portuguese and their variations, i.e., paraphrases or entailed questions, created manually, by humans, or automatically, with Google Translate. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system outperforms other systems in the domain of question-answering . it performs well when matching variations with their original questions . |