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ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Large Scale Acquisition of Paraphrases for Learning Surface Patterns
Paraphrases have proved to be useful in many applications, including Machine Translation, Question Answering, Summarization, and Information Retrieval. Paraphrase acquisition meth...
Rahul Bhagat, Deepak Ravichandran
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Combining Multiple Resources to Improve SMT-based Paraphrasing Model
This paper proposes a novel method that exploits multiple resources to improve statistical machine translation (SMT) based paraphrasing. In detail, a phrasal paraphrase table and ...
Shiqi Zhao, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou, Ting Liu, Sheng ...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Aligning Needles in a Haystack: Paraphrase Acquisition Across the Web
This paper presents a lightweight method for unsupervised extraction of paraphrases from arbitrary textual Web documents. The method differs from previous approaches to paraphrase...
Marius Pasca, Péter Dienes
KCAP
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Collecting paraphrase corpora from volunteer contributors
Extensive and deep paraphrase corpora are important for a variety of natural language processing and user interaction tasks. In this paper, we present an approach which i) collect...
Timothy Chklovski
SEMCO
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
LexPar: A Freely Available English Paraphrase Lexicon Automatically Extracted from FrameNet
—This is a paper about a new resource, namely an English paraphrase dictionary extracted from the FrameNet lexicon and its example data base. I. THE LEXPAR PARAPHRASE DICTIONARY ...
Bob Coyne, Owen Rambow