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One key principle for assessing semantic similarity between texts is to measure the degree of semantic overlap of them by considering word-by-word alignment. However, alignment-based approaches are inferior to the generic sentence vectorsin terms of performance.
One key principle for assessing semantic similarity between texts is to measure the degree of semantic overlap between two texts by considering the word alignment. Such alignment-based approaches are inferior to the generic sentence vectorsin terms of performance.