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This page describes various approaches to paraphrasing using the DELPH-IN tools. This page was initiated by FrancisBond and DarrenAppling; please feel free to make additions or corrections as you see fit.

How to Paraphrase

• Strict: parse and then generate

• Some variation: parse and then rephrase (see RmrsParaphrasing)

• More variation: create a monolingual Machine Translation system (see MachineTranslationTop)

Applications

Expanding Training Data for Statistical MT

Bond, Francis, Eric Nichols, Darren Scott Appling, Michael Paul (2008)

• [http://www2.nict.go.jp/x/x161/en/member/bond/pubs/2008-iwslt-smt-para.pdf Improving Statistical Machine Translation by Paraphrasing the Training Data], In IWSLT-2008.