Paraphrase assessment in structured vector space: exploring parameters and datasets

  • Authors:
  • Katrin Erk;Sebastian Padó

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Texas at Austin;Stanford University

  • Venue:
  • GEMS '09 Proceedings of the Workshop on Geometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The appropriateness of paraphrases for words depends often on context: "grab" can replace "catch" in "catch a ball", but not in "catch a cold". Structured Vector Space (SVS) (Erk and Padó, 2008) is a model that computes word meaning in context in order to assess the appropriateness of such paraphrases. This paper investigates "best-practice" parameter settings for SVS, and it presents a method to obtain large datasets for paraphrase assessment from corpora with WSD annotation.