TY - GEN
T1 - A linguistic analysis of expert-generated paraphrases
AU - Brandon, Russell D.
AU - Crossley, Scott A.
AU - McNamara, Danielle
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The authors used the computational tool Coh-Metrix to examine expert writers' paraphrases and in particular, how experts paraphrase text passages using condensing strategies. The overarching goal of this study was to develop machine learning algorithms to aid in the automatic detection of paraphrases and paraphrase types. To this end, three experts were instructed to paraphrase by condensing a set of target passages. The linguistic differences between the original passages and the condensed paraphrases were then analyzed using Coh-Metrix. The condensed paraphrases were accurately distinguished from the original target passages based on the number of words, word frequency, and syntactic complexity.
AB - The authors used the computational tool Coh-Metrix to examine expert writers' paraphrases and in particular, how experts paraphrase text passages using condensing strategies. The overarching goal of this study was to develop machine learning algorithms to aid in the automatic detection of paraphrases and paraphrase types. To this end, three experts were instructed to paraphrase by condensing a set of target passages. The linguistic differences between the original passages and the condensed paraphrases were then analyzed using Coh-Metrix. The condensed paraphrases were accurately distinguished from the original target passages based on the number of words, word frequency, and syntactic complexity.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84864986745
SN - 9781577355588
T3 - Proceedings of the 25th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS-25
SP - 268
EP - 271
BT - Proceedings of the 25th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS-25
T2 - 25th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS-25
Y2 - 23 May 2012 through 25 May 2012
ER -