In this paper we investigate the automatic generation and evaluation of sentential paraphrases. We describe a method for generating sentential paraphrases by using a large aligned...
Abstract. The paper addresses an important challenge for the automatic processing of English written text: understanding noun compounds’ semantics. Following Downing (1977) [1], ...
We describe a syntax-based algorithm that automatically builds Finite State Automata (word lattices) from semantically equivalent translation sets. These FSAs are good representat...
We propose a method of synonymous paraphrasing of a text based on WordNet synonymy data and Internet statistics of stable word combinations (collocations). Given a text, we look fo...
This paper presents three methods that can be used to recognize paraphrases. They all employ string similarity measures apshallow abstractions of the input sentences, and a Maximu...