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%T OPI-JSA at SemEval-2017 Task 1: Application of Ensemble learning for computing semantic textual similarity
%A Śpiewak, Martyna
%A Sobecki, Piotr
%A Karaś, Daniel
%Y Bethard, Steven
%Y Carpuat, Marine
%Y Apidianaki, Marianna
%Y Mohammad, Saif M.
%Y Cer, Daniel
%Y Jurgens, David
%S Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)
%D 2017
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Vancouver, Canada
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Markdown (Informal)

[OPI-JSA at SemEval-2017 Task 1: Application of Ensemble learning for computing semantic textual similarity](https://aclanthology.org/S17-2018) (Śpiewak et al., SemEval 2017)

• OPI-JSA at SemEval-2017 Task 1: Application of Ensemble learning for computing semantic textual similarity (Śpiewak et al., SemEval 2017)

ACL

• Martyna Śpiewak, Piotr Sobecki, and Daniel Karaś. 2017. OPI-JSA at SemEval-2017 Task 1: Application of Ensemble learning for computing semantic textual similarity. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017), pages 139–143, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.