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324 acl-2013-Smatch: an Evaluation Metric for Semantic Feature Structures


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Author: Shu Cai ; Kevin Knight

Abstract: The evaluation of whole-sentence semantic structures plays an important role in semantic parsing and large-scale semantic structure annotation. However, there is no widely-used metric to evaluate wholesentence semantic structures. In this paper, we present smatch, a metric that calculates the degree of overlap between two semantic feature structures. We give an efficient algorithm to compute the metric and show the results of an inter-annotator agreement study.


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