EP1531402A3

System for identifying paraphrases using machine translation techniques

Abstract

The present invention obtains a set of text segments from a cluster of different articles written about a common event. The set of text segments is then subjected to textual alignment techniques to identify paraphrases from the text segments in the text. The invention can also be used to generate paraphrases.

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BARZILAY R ET AL: "Extracting Paraphrases from a Parallel Corpus", PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACL/EACL, TOULOUSE, FR, 6 July 2001 (2001-07-06), pages 50 - 57, XP002372805, Retrieved from the Internet <URL:http://people.csail.mit.edu/regina/> [retrieved on 20060317]	Non-patent	Search report
BARZILAY R ET AL: "Learning to Paraphrase: An Unsupervised Approach Using Multiple-Sequence Alignment", PROCEEDINGS OF THE HLT-NAACL, EDMONTON, CA, 27 May 2003 (2003-05-27), pages 16 - 23, XP002372806, Retrieved from the Internet <URL:http://people.csail.mit.edu/regina/> [retrieved on 20060317]	Non-patent	Search report
QUIRK C ET AL: "Monolingual Machine Translation for Paraphrase Generation", PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2004 CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, BARCELONA, ES, 25 July 2004 (2004-07-25), pages 142 - 149, XP002372807, Retrieved from the Internet <URL:http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/acl2004/emnlp/> [retrieved on 20060317]	Non-patent	Search report

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CN1617134A	China	A	2005-05-18
EP1531402A2	European Patent Office (EPO)	A2	2005-05-18
AU2004218705A1	Australia	A1	2005-05-26
JP2005149494A	Japan	A	2005-06-09
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