Paraphrasing methods recognize, generate, or extract phrases, sentences, or longer natural language expressions that convey almost the same information. Textual entailment methods...
We describe a method for recognizing textual entailment that uses the length of the longest common subsequence (LCS) between two texts as its decision criterion. Rather than requi...
We describe tree edit models for representing sequences of tree transformations involving complex reordering phenomena and demonstrate that they offer a simple, intuitive, and eff...
The paper presents a new approach to the problem of paraphrase identification. The new approach extends a previously proposed method for the task of textual entailment. The relati...
Vasile Rus, Philip M. McCarthy, Mihai C. Lintean, ...
A large amount of empirically derived world knowledge is essential for many languageprocessing tasks, to create expectations that can help assess plausibility and guide disambigua...