sem-eval-sts-tasks-2012-2017
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The SemEval Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) shared task series spans 2012 through 2017 and is the standard benchmark for evaluating sentence-embedding models.
Summary
There is a well-established test series, run annually from 2012 to 2017, that serves as the go-to yardstick for checking whether models that turn sentences into numerical vectors actually capture meaning well. Any system claiming to represent sentences numerically is expected to be measured against this benchmark, so it anchors what "good" looks like in that space.