Learning to paraphrase: An unsupervised approach using multiple-sequence alignment

Proceedings of the 2003 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, HLT-NAACL 2003

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  Barzilay, Regina ^a   Lee, Lillian ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BASELINE SYSTEMS; COMPARABLE CORPORA; EVALUATION EXPERIMENTS; LEARN+; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; SENTENCE LEVEL; TEXT GENERATIONS; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES;

EID: 85037066932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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