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| Automatic Paraphrasing of Chinese Utterances |
| ZHANG Yu-jie1,Kazuhide Yamamoto2 |
| 1.Communications Research Laboratory
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Abstract One of the key issues in spoken language translation is how to deal with unrestricted expressions in spontaneous utterances. This research is centered on the development of a Chinese paraphraser that automatically paraphrases utterances prior to transfer in Chinese-Japanese spoken language translation. In this paper , a pattern-matching approach to paraphrasing is proposed for which only morphological analysis is required. In addition , a pattern construction method is described through which paraphrasing patterns can be efficiently learned from a paraphrase corpus and human experience. Using the implemented paraphraser and the obtained patterns , a paraphrasing experiment was conducted and the results were evaluated.
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Received: 24 March 2003
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