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The distributional similarity of sub-parses

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posted on 2023-06-07, 14:11 authored by Julie WeedsJulie Weeds, David WeirDavid Weir, Bill Keller
This work explores computing distributional similarity between sub-parses, i.e., fragments of a parse tree, as an extension to general lexical distributional similarity techniques. In the same way that lexical distributional similarity is used to estimate lexical semantic similarity, we propose using distributional similarity between subparses to estimate the semantic similarity of phrases. Such a technique will allow us to identify paraphrases where the component words are not semantically similar. We demonstrate the potential of the method by applying it to a small number of examples and showing that the paraphrases are more similar than the non-paraphrases.

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  • Published

Journal

Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Empirical Modeling of Semantic Equivalence and Entailment

Publisher

Association for Computational Linguistics

Page range

7-12

Book title

Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Empirical Modeling of Semantic Equivalence and Entailment

Place of publication

Menlo Park, CA. USA

ISBN

0736-587X

Series

Proceedings of the Conference.

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  • Informatics Publications

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Legacy Posted Date

2008-02-27

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