What Is a Paraphrase
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12155705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rahul Bhagat (USC Information Sciences Institute, corresponding author), Eduard Hovy (0000-0002-3270-7903, USC Information Sciences Institute) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 463-472 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Computational Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2017 • E-ISSN: 1530-9312 |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/coli_a_00166 |
| OpenAlex | W2016172157 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 11 |
Paraphrases are sentences or phrases that convey the same meaning using different wording. Although the logical definition of paraphrases requires strict semantic equivalence, linguistics accepts a broader, approximate, equivalence—thereby allowing far more examples of “quasi-paraphrase.” But approximate equivalence is hard to define. Thus, the phenomenon of paraphrases, as understood in linguistics, is difficult to characterize. In this article, we list a set of 25 operations that generate quasi-paraphrases. We then empirically validate the scope and accuracy of this list by manually analyzing random samples of two publicly available paraphrase corpora. We provide the distribution of naturally occurring quasi-paraphrases in English text
Epistemology · Equivalence (formal languages · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Natural language processing · Paraphrase · Programming language · Scope (computer science · Semantic equivalence · Set (abstract data type · Computer Science · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Text Readability and Simplification · Topic Modeling · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |