Also in 1 The 9,600 pairs are available at https://github.com/esantus/ROOT9 relation to the state of the art, ROOT9 is proved to be competitive, being slightly outperformed in all the datasets only by the svmCAT model<cite> (Weeds et al., 2014)</cite> , which is a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier run on the concatenation of the distributional vectors of the words in the pairs.