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标题：Computational Approaches to Sentence Completion
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作者：Geoffrey Zweig ; John C. Platt ; Christopher Meek 等
期刊名称：Conference on European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)
出版年度：2012
卷号：2012
出版社：ACL Anthology
摘要：This paper studies the problem of sentencelevel semantic coherence by answering SATstyle sentence completion questions. These questions test the ability of algorithms to distinguish sense from nonsense based on a variety of sentence-level phenomena. We tackle the problem with two approaches: methods that use local lexical information, such as the n-grams of a classical language model; and methods that evaluate global coherence, such as latent semantic analysis. We evaluate these methods on a suite of practice SAT questions, and on a recently released sentence completion task based on data taken from five Conan Doyle novels. We find that by fusing local and global information, we can exceed 50% on this task (chance baseline is 20%), and we suggest some avenues for further research.