This paper describes the HULTECH team participation in Task 3 of SemEval-2014. Four different subtasks are provided to the participants, who are asked to determine the semantic similarity of cross-level test pairs: paragraphto-sentence, sentence-to-phrase, phrase-toword and word-to-sense. Our system adopts a unified strategy (general purpose system) to calculate similarity across all subtasks b...

This paper presents a knowledge-based method for measuring the semanticsimilarity of texts. While there is a large body of previous work focused on finding the semantic similarity of concepts and words, the application of these wordoriented methods to text similarity has not been yet explored. In this paper, we introduce a method that combines wordto-word similarity metrics into a text-totext m...

We present a novel approach to automatically extracting summary excerpts from audio and video. Our approach is to maximize the average similarity between the excerpt and the source. We first calculate a similarity matrix by comparing each pair of time samples using a quantitative similarity measure. To determine the segment with highest average similarity, we maximize the summation of the self-...

In his article, "Comparative Literature as Textual Anthropology," Antony Tatlow proposes textual anthropology as a critic's approach in the comparative study of literature. If anthropology is "behavioural hermeneutics" (Clifford Geertz) with the implication of self-reflexivity, the anthropologist will be disposed to fashion in the object of attention what is neglected and that can therefore be ...

Self-similar groups are a fascinating area of current research. Here we give a short, and hopefully accessible, introduction to them.

We propose a new method to estimate human change of concentration from multiple camera views of the human. In our method, human state of concentration is observed as self-load, defined as energy injected in a period to keep and manipulate his/her body. If a person is concentrating to a certain task, he/she will brace himself/herself for better results, and energy consumption will increase. To c...