PPDB: The Paraphrase Database

Summary

The 1.0 release of the paraphrase database, PPDB, contains over 220 million paraphrase pairs, consisting of 73 million phrasal and 8 million lexical paraphrases, as well as 140million paraphrase patterns, which capture many meaning-preserving syntactic transformations.

Keywords

Paraphrase, Natural language processing, Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Sentence

References

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Reranking Bilingually Extracted Paraphrases Using Monolingual Distributional SimilarityTsz Ping Chan, Chris Callison-Burch, Benjamin Van Durme — 2011
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Cited by

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Multiview LSA: Representation Learning via Generalized CCAPushpendre Rastogi, Benjamin Van Durme, Raman Arora — 2015
Large-Scale Paraphrasing for Natural Language UnderstandingJuri Ganitkevitch — 2013
A Unified Probabilistic Approach for Semantic Clustering of Relational PhrasesAdam Grycner, Gerhard Weikum, Jay Pujara — 2014
Text Rewriting Improves Semantic Role LabelingKristian Woodsend, Mirella Lapata — 2014
Event structures in knowledge, pictures and textMichaela Regneri — 2013
Discriminative methods for statistical spoken dialogue systemsMatthew S. Henderson — 2015
Knowledge-Based Textual Inference via Parse-Tree TransformationsRoy Bar-Haim, Ido Dagan, Jonathan Berant — 2015
On the Proper Treatment of Quantifiers in Probabilistic Logic SemanticsIslam Beltagy, Katrin Erk — 2015
Encoding Prior Knowledge with Eigenword EmbeddingsDominique Osborne, Shashi Narayan, Shay B. Cohen — 2015
Erratum: “From Paraphrase Database to Compositional Paraphrase Model and Back”John Wieting, Mohit Bansal, Kevin Gimpel — 2015
Leveraging Paraphrase Labels to Extract Synonyms from TwitterMaria Antoniak, Eric B. Bell, Fei Xia — 2015
Syntax-Aware Multi-Sense Word Embeddings for Deep Compositional Models of MeaningJianpeng Cheng, Dimitri Kartsaklis — 2015
Cross level semantic similarity: an evaluation framework for universal measures of similarityDavid Jurgens, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Roberto Navigli — 2015
Natural Language Semantics using Probabilistic LogicIslam Beltagy — 2014
Efficient Global Learning of Entailment GraphsJonathan Berant, Noga Alon, Ido Dagan — 2015
Document Layout Optimization with Automated ParaphrasingYusuke Kido, Hikaru Yokono, Goran Topić — 2015
Linguistic steganography on Twitter: hierarchical language modeling with manual interactionAlex Wilson, Phil Blunsom, Andrew D. Ker — 2014
Incorporating Linguistic Knowledge for Learning Distributed Word RepresentationsYan Wang, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun — 2015
Augmenting FrameNet Via PPDBPushpendre Rastogi, Benjamin Van Durme — 2014

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