Unsupervised construction of large paraphrase corpora: Exploiting massively parallel news sources

COLING 2004 - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Dolan, Bill ^a   Quirk, Chris ^a   Brockett, Chris ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

DISTANCE DATUM; EDIT DISTANCE; HEURISTIC STRATEGY; MASSIVELY PARALLELS; NEWS ARTICLES; NEWS SOURCES; PARAPHRASE CORPUS; SENTENCE LEVEL; UNSUPERVISED TECHNIQUES; WEB BASED;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85105937549     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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