Acquiring paraphrases from text corpora

K-CAP'09 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Knowledge Capture

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 161-168

  Bhagat, Rahul ^a   Hovy, Eduard ^a   Patwardhan, Siddharth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Information extraction; Paraphrase acquisition; Patterns

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN SPECIFIC; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; LEARNING PATTERNS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MULTI-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE APPLICATIONS; QUESTION ANSWERING; SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION; TEXT CORPORA;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; SYNTACTICS;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 70449671236     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1597735.1597764     Document Type: Conference Paper

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