Siamak Barzegar

SEMR-11: A multi-lingual gold-standard for semantic similarity and relatedness for eleven languages

S Barzegar, B Davis, M Zarrouk, S Handschuh, A Freitas

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

This work describes SemR-11, a multi-lingual dataset for evaluating semantic similarity and relatedness for 11 languages (German, ..

Indra: A word embedding and semantic relatedness server

JE Sales, L Souza, S Barzegar, B Davis, A Freitas, S Handschuh

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

In recent years word embedding/distributional semantic models evolved to become a fundamental component in many natural language p..

A multilingual test collection for the semantic search of entity categories

JE Sales, S Barzegar, W Franco, B Bermeitinger, T Cunha, B Davis, A Freitas, S Handschuh

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

Humans naturally organise and classify the world into sets and categories. These categories expressed in natural language are pres..

A transportable distributional semantics architecture

Siamak Barzegar

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2019

Classification of composite semantic relations by a distributional-relational model

Siamak Barzegar, Brian Davis, Siegfried Handschuh, Andre Freitas

Journal article  |  2018  |  DATA & KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING

Different semantic interpretation tasks such as text entailment and question answering require the classification of semantic rela..

Multilingual Semantic Relatedness using lightweight machine translation

Siamak Barzegar, Brian Davis, Siegfried Handschuh, Andre Freitas

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  2018 IEEE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC COMPUTING (ICSC)

Distributional semantic models are strongly dependent on the size and the quality of the reference corpora, which embeds the commo..

Composite Semantic Relation Classification

Siamak Barzegar, Andre Freitas, Siegfried Handschuh, Brian Davis

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS, NLDB 2017

Different semantic interpretation tasks such as text entailment and question answering require the classification of semantic rela..

Semantic Relatedness for All (Languages): A Comparative Analysis of Multilingual Semantic Relatedness Using Machine Translation

Andre Freitas, Siamak Barzegar, Juliano Efson Sales, Siegfried Handschuh, Brian Davis

Conference Proceedings  |  2016  |  KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, EKAW 2016

This paper provides a comparative analysis of the performance of four state-of-the-art distributional semantic models (DSMs) over ..

DINFRA: A One Stop Shop for Computing Multilingual Semantic Relatedness

Siamak Barzegar, Juliano Efson Sales, Andre Freitas, Siegfried Handschuh, Brian Davis

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  SIGIR 2015: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 38TH INTERNATIONAL ACM SIGIR CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

This demonstration presents an infrastructure for computing multilingual semantic relatedness and correlation for twelve natural l..

Dynamic particle swarm optimization for multimodal function

H Omranpour, M Ebadzadeh, S Shiry, S Barzegar

Journal article  |  2012  |  IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence