TeamZ: Measuring Semantic Textual Similarity for Spanish Using an Overlap-Based Approach

This paper presents an overlap-based approach using bag of words and the Spanish WordNet to solve the STS-Spanish subtask (STS-Es) of SemEval-2014 Task 10. Since bag of words is the most commonly used method to ascertain similarity, the performance is modest.

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