—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 ...
This paper presents a lightweight method for unsupervised extraction of paraphrases from arbitrary textual Web documents. The method differs from previous approaches to paraphrase...
Unsupervised paraphrase acquisition has been an active research field in recent years, but its effective coverage and performance have rarely been evaluated. We propose a generic ...
Paraphrase recognition is a critical step for natural language interpretation. Accordingly, many NLP applications would benefit from high coverage knowledge bases of paraphrases. ...
We present a novel approach to metaphor interpretation and a system that produces literal paraphrases for metaphorical expressions. Such a representation is directly transferable ...