If there are more than two words in a row that are identical to the text, you are copying, not summarizing. I would much rather see grammatically incorrect insights into the paper than a cut-and-paste “summary.” Each entry in the left-hand side in this table was an (unquoted) statement in a student summary with the exact wording given in the original paper. Without the quotes, each of these exa...

The paper addresses the task of automatic interpretation of semantic relation in noun compounds. The problem has been attempted with both Ontology-based and Statistical approaches, but both approaches having their own limitations. We present a novel VSMbased statistical model which represents each relation with a weighted vector of prepositional and verbal paraphrases. The model ranks the parap...

The IAMTC project (Interlingual Annotation of Multilingual Translation Corpora) is developing an interlingual representation framework for annotation of parallel corpora (English paired with Arabic, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish) with deep-semantic representations. In particular, we are investigating meaning equivalent paraphrases involving conversives and non-literal language us...

In this paper we present a novel method for deriving paraphrases during automatic MT evaluation using only the source and reference texts, which are necessary for the evaluation, and word and phrase alignment software. Using target language paraphrases produced through word and phrase alignment a number of alternative reference sentences are constructed automatically for each candidate translat...

We present the first fully unsupervised approach to metaphor interpretation, and a system that produces literal paraphrases for metaphorical expressions. Such a form of interpretation is directly transferable to other NLP applications that can benefit from a metaphor processing component. Our method is different from previous work in that it does not rely on any manually annotated data or lexic...

Conversational services are emerging as a new paradigm for accessing information by simply uttering questions in natural language, posing whole set of challenges to the design and engineering systems. Training conversational deal with nuances language often requires collecting high-quality diverse training samples (i.e., paraphrases). Traditional approaches such hiring an expert or crowdsourcin...