Paraphrasing of Chinese Utterances

One of the key issues in spoken language translation is how to deal with unrestricted expressions in spontaneous utterances. This research is centered on the development of a Chinese paraphraser that automatically paraphrases utterances prior to transfer in Chinese-Japanese spoken language translation. In this paper, a pattern-based approach to paraphrasing is proposed for which only morphological analysis is required. In addition, a pattern construction method is described through which paraphrasing patterns can be efficiently learned from a paraphrase corpus and human experience. Using the implemented paraphraser and the obtained patterns, a paraphrasing experiment was conducted and the results were evaluated.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Yujie Zhang, Kazuhide Yamamoto
• Keywords: Chinese-Japanese Spoken Language, COLING 2002, COLING 2008, Language Translation, Paraphrasing