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Syntactic Constraints on Paraphrases Extracted from Parallel Corpora

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Syntactic Constraints on Paraphrases Extracted from Parallel Corpora
We improve the quality of paraphrases extracted from parallel corpora by requiring that phrases and their paraphrases be the same syntactic type. This is achieved by parsing the English side of a parallel corpus and altering the phrase extraction algorithm to extract phrase labels alongside bilingual phrase pairs. In order to retain broad coverage of non-constituent phrases, complex syntactic labels are introduced. A manual evaluation indicates a 19% absolute improvement in paraphrase quality over the baseline method.
Chris Callison-Burch
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Type Conference
Year 2008
Where EMNLP
Authors Chris Callison-Burch
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