Kashyap, Abhay L.Han, LushanYus, RobertoSleeman, JenniferSatyapanich, Taneeya W.Gandhi, Sunil R.Finin, Tim2018-11-022018-11-022014-08-23Abhay Kashyap, Lushan Han, Roberto Yus, Jennifer Sleeman, Taneeya Satyapanich, Sunil Gandhi, and Tim Finin. 2014. Meerkat Mafia: Multilingual and Cross-Level Semantic Textual Similarity Systems. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014), pages 416–423, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/v1/S14-2072http://hdl.handle.net/11603/11834http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/v1/S14-2072Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic EvaluationWe describe UMBC's systems developed for the SemEval 2014 tasks on Multilingual Semantic Textual Similarity (Task 10) and Cross-Level Semantic Similarity (Task 3). Our best submission in the Multilingual task ranked second in both English and Spanish subtasks using an unsupervised approach. Our best systems for Cross-Level task ranked second in Paragraph-Sentence and first in both Sentence-Phrase and Word-Sense subtask. The system ranked first for the Phrase- Word subtask but was not included in the official results due to a late submission.8 pagesen-USThis item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author.Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/human language technologylexical semanticsnatural language processingsemanticsUMBC Ebiquity Research GroupText