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| Author | Search for: Xu, Wei; Search for: Ritter, Alan; Search for: Dolan, William B.; Search for: Grishman, Ralph; Search for: Cherry, Colin1 |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. Information and Communication Technologies
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Conference | 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2012, December 8-15, 2012, Mumbai, India |
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| Subject | automatic evaluation; parallel text; parallel training; paraphrase; Shakespeare; writing style; computational linguistics |
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| Abstract | We present initial investigation into the task of paraphrasing language while targeting a particular writing style. The plays of William Shakespeare and their modern translations are used as a testbed for evaluating paraphrase systems targeting a specific style of writing. We show that even with a relatively small amount of parallel training data, it is possible to learn paraphrase models which capture stylistic phenomena, and these models outperform baselines based on dictionaries and out-of-domain parallel text. In addition we present an initial investigation into automatic evaluation metrics for paraphrasing writing style. To the best of our knowledge this is the first work to investigate the task of paraphrasing text with the goal of targeting a specific style of writing. |
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| Publication date | 2012-12-15 |
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| Publisher | The COLING 2012 Organizing Committee |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| NPARC number | 21269998 |
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| Record identifier | 0086e1ae-4352-4a54-9796-e5a56a246a74 |
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| Record created | 2013-12-13 |
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| Record modified | 2020-05-29 |
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