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ACCEPTED PAPERS


WS5:
The Second International Workshop on Paraphrasing:
Paraphrase Acquisition and Applications

Full Presentation

Lexical Paraphrasing for Document Retrieval and Node Identification
Ingrid Zukerman, Sarah George and Yingying Wen (Monash University)

Paraphrasing Rules for Automatic Evaluation of Translation into Japanese
Hiroshi Kanayama (Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Japan, Ltd.)

Preferential Presentation of Japanese Near-Synonyms Using Definition Statements
Hiroyuki Okamoto, Kengo Sato and Hiroaki Saito (Keio University)

Extracting Structural Paraphrases from Aligned Monolingual Corpora
Ali Ibrahim, Boris Katz and Jimmy Lin (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory)

Generation of single-sentence paraphrases from predicate/argument structure using lexico-grammatical resources
Raymond Kozlowski, Kathleen F. McCoy and K. Vijay-Shanker (University of Delaware)

Paraphrase Acquisition for Information Extraction
Yusuke Shinyama and Satoshi Sekine (Department of Computer Science, New York University)

Text Simplification for Reading Assistance: A Project Note
Kentaro Inui, Atsushi Fujita, Tetsuro Takahashi, Ryu Iida and Tomoya Iwakura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

Paraphrasing Japanese noun phrases using character-based indexing
Tokunaga Takenobu, Tanaka Hozumi and Kimura Kenji (Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Optimizing Synonym Extraction Using Monolingual and Bilingual Resources
Hua Wu and Ming Zhou (Microsoft Research Asia)


Short Presentation

Interrogative Reformulation Patterns and Acquisition of Question Paraphrases
Noriko Tomuro (DePaul University)

Exploiting Paraphrases in a Question Answering System
Fabio Rinaldi, James Dowdall, Kaarel Kaljurand, Michael Hess and Diego Molla (Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich)

Modeling Linguistic Paraphrasing
Leo Wanner and Margarita Alonso Ramos (Intelligent Systems Institute, University of Stuttgart)

Criterion for Judging Request Intention in Response texts of Open-ended Questionnaires
Hiroko Inui, Masao Utiyama and Hitoshi Isahara (Communications Research Laboratory, Kyoto)

Normalization and Paraphrasing Using Symbolic Methods
Caroline Brun and Caroline Hagege (Xerox Research Centre Europe)

(One more paper with conditional acceptance)