An empirical evaluation of data-driven paraphrase generation techniques

ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 546-551

  Metzler, Donald ^a   Hovy, Eduard ^a   Zhang, Chunliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA-DRIVEN; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; GENERATION TECHNIQUES; NLP TOOLS; SIMPLE APPROACH;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84859047468     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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