Idiom Paraphrases: Seventh Heaven vs Cloud Nine

Maria Pershina, Yifan He, Ralph Grishman

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

Abstract

The goal of paraphrase identification is to decide whether two given text fragments have the same meaning. Of particular interest in this area is the identification of paraphrases among short texts, such as SMS and Twitter. In this paper, we present idiomatic expressions as a new domain for short-text paraphrase identification. We propose a technique, utilizing idiom definitions and continuous space word representations that performs competitively on a dataset of 1.4K annotated idiom paraphrase pairs, which we make publicly available for the research community.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationEMNLP 2015 - Workshop on Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics, LSDSem 2015, Workshop Proceedings
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages76-82
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781941643327
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event2015 Workshop on Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics, LSDSem 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: Sep 8 2015 → …

Publication series

NameEMNLP 2015 - Workshop on Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics, LSDSem 2015, Workshop Proceedings

Conference

Conference2015 Workshop on Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics, LSDSem 2015
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period9/8/15 → …

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Linguistics and Language

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