The Second International Workshop on Paraphrasing:
Paraphrase Acquisition and Applications

Workshop Chairs: Kentaro Inui and Ulf Hermjakob

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Session 1: Generation
pdfs pdf ps bib Generation of Single-sentence Paraphrases from Predicate/Argument Structure using Lexico-grammatical Resources pp. 1-8
Raymond Kozlowski, Kathleen F. McCoy  and  K. Vijay-Shanker
Session 2: Applications I
pdfs pdf ps bib Text Simplification for Reading Assistance: A Project Note pp. 9-16
Kentaro Inui, Atsushi Fujita, Tetsuro Takahashi, Ryu Iida  and  Tomoya Iwakura
pdfs pdf ps bib Preferential Presentation of Japanese Near-synonyms using Definition Statements pp. 17-24
Hiroyuki Okamoto, Kengo Sato  and  Hiroaki Saito
Session 3: Short Presentation Session
pdfs pdf ps bib Exploiting Paraphrases in a Question Answering System pp. 25-32
Fabio Rinaldi, James Dowdall, Kaarel Kaljurand, Michael Hess  and  Diego Mollá
pdfs pdf ps bib Interrogative Reformulation Patterns and Acquisition of Question Paraphrases pp. 33-40
Noriko Tomuro
pdfs pdf ps bib Normalization and Paraphrasing Using Symbolic Methods pp. 41-48
Caroline Brun  and  Caroline Hagège
pdfs pdf ps bib Criterion for Judging Request Intention in Response Texts of Open-Ended Questionnaires pp. 49-56
Hiroko Inui, Masao Utiyama  and  Hitoshi Isahara
Session 4: Paraphrasing Acquisition
pdfs pdf ps bib Extracting Structural Paraphrases from Aligned Monolingual Corpora pp. 57-64
Ali Ibrahim, Boris Katz  and  Jimmy Lin
pdfs pdf ps bib Paraphrase Acquisition for Information Extraction pp. 65-71
Yusuke Shinyama  and  Satoshi Sekine
pdfs pdf ps bib Optimizing Synonym Extraction Using Monolingual and Bilingual Resources pp. 72-79
Hua Wu  and  Ming Zhou
pdfs pdf ps bib Paraphrasing Japanese Noun Phrases using Character-based Indexing pp. 80-87
Takenobu Tokunaga, Hozumi Tanaka  and  Kenji Kimura
Session 5: Applications II
pdfs pdf ps bib Paraphrasing Rules for Automatic Evaluation of Translation into Japanese pp. 88-93
Hiroshi Kanayama
pdfs pdf ps bib Lexical Paraphrasing for Document Retrieval and Node Identification pp. 94-101
Ingrid Zukerman, Sarah George  and  Yingying Wen