WRPA: A system for relational paraphrase acquisition from Wikipedia

In this paper we present WRPA, a system for Relational Paraphrase Acquisition from Wikipedia. WRPA extracts paraphrasing patterns that hold a particular relation between two entities taking advantage of Wikipedia structure. What is new in this system is that Wikipedia's exploitation goes beyond...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Vila Rigat, Marta, Rodríguez Hontoria, Horacio, Martí Antonin, M. Antònia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/48302
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/48302
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Lingüística computacional
Paràfrasi
Corpus (Lingüística)
Tractament del llenguatge natural (Informàtica)
Computational linguistics
Paraphrase
Corpora (Linguistics)
Natural language processing (Computer science)
Descripción
Sumario:In this paper we present WRPA, a system for Relational Paraphrase Acquisition from Wikipedia. WRPA extracts paraphrasing patterns that hold a particular relation between two entities taking advantage of Wikipedia structure. What is new in this system is that Wikipedia's exploitation goes beyond infoboxes, reaching itemized information embedded in Wikipedia pages. WRPA is language independent, assuming that there exists Wikipedia and shallow linguistic tools for that particular language, and also independent of the relation addressed.