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"abstract": "By providing a better understanding of paraphrase and coreference in terms of similarities and differences in their linguistic nature, this article delimits what the focus of paraphrase extraction and coreference resolution tasks should be, and to what extent they can help each other. We argue for the relevance of this discussion to Natural Language Processing.",
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"text": "Paraphrase extraction 1 and coreference resolution have applications in Question Answering, Information Extraction, Machine Translation, and so forth. Paraphrase pairs might be coreferential, and coreference relations are sometimes paraphrases. The two overlap considerably (Hirst 1981) , but their definitions make them significantly different in essence: Paraphrasing concerns meaning, whereas coreference is about discourse referents. Thus, they do not always coincide. In the following example, b and d are both coreferent and paraphrastic, whereas a, c, e, f, and h are coreferent but not paraphrastic, and g and i are paraphrastic but not coreferent.",
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"text": "[Tony] a went to see [ The discourse model built for Example (1) contains six entities (i.e., Tony, the eye doctor, Tony's eyes, Tony's cataracts, Tony's mother, cataracts). Because a, c, e, f, and h all point to Tony, we say that they are coreferent. In contrast, in paraphrasing, we do not need to build a discourse entity to state that g and i are paraphrase pairs; we restrict ourselves to semantic content and this is why we check for sameness of meaning between cataracts and cloudy vision alone, regardless of whether they are a referential unit in a discourse. Despite the differences, it is possible for paraphrasing and coreference to co-occur, as in the case of b and d. NLP components dealing with paraphrasing and coreference seem to have great potential to improve understanding and generation systems. As a result, they have been the focus of a large amount of work in the past couple of decades (see the surveys by Androutsopoulos and Malakasiotis [2010] , Madnani and Dorr [2010] , Ng [2010] , and Poesio and Versley [2009] ). Before computational linguistics, coreference had not been studied on its own from a purely linguistic perspective but was indirectly mentioned in the study of pronouns. Although there have been some linguistic works that consider paraphrasing, they do not fully respond to the needs of paraphrasing from a computational perspective.",
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"text": "This section explores the overlapping relationship between paraphrase and coreference, highlighting the most relevant aspects that they have in common as well as those that distinguish them. They are both sameness relations (Section 2.2), but one is between meanings and the other between referents (Section 2.1). In terms of linguistic units, coreference is mainly restricted to noun phrases (NPs), whereas paraphrasing goes beyond and includes word-, phrase-and sentence-level expressions (Section 2.3). One final diverging point is the role they (might) play in discourse (Section 2.4).",
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"text": "The two dimensions that are the focus of paraphrasing and coreference are meaning and reference, respectively. Traditionally, paraphrase is defined as the relation between two expressions that have the same meaning (i.e., they evoke the same mental concept), whereas coreference is defined as the relation between two expressions that have the same referent in the discourse (i.e., they point to the same entity). We follow Karttunen (1976) and talk of \"discourse referents\" instead of \"real-world referents.\"",
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"text": "In Table 1 , the italicized pairs in cells (1,1) and (2,1) are both paraphrastic but they only corefer in (1,1). We cannot decide on (non-)coreference in (2,1) as we need a discourse to first assign a referent. In contrast, we can make paraphrasing judgments without taking discourse into consideration. Pairs like the one in cell (1,2) are only coreferent but not paraphrases because the proper noun Tony and the pronoun his have reference but no meaning. Lastly, neither phenomenon is observed in cell (2,2).",
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"text": "Paraphrasing and coreference are usually defined as sameness relations: Two expressions that have the same meaning are paraphrastic, and two expressions that refer to the same entity in a discourse are coreferent. The concept of sameness is usually taken for granted and left unexplained, but establishing sameness is not straightforward. A strict interpretation of the concept makes sameness relations only possible in logic and mathematics, whereas a sloppy interpretation makes the definition too vague. In paraphrasing, if the loss of at the city in Example (2b) is not considered to be relevant, Examples (2a) and (2b) are paraphrases; but if it is considered to be relevant, then they are not. It depends on where we draw the boundaries of what is accepted as the \"same\" meaning.",
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"text": "Similarly, with respect to coreference (3), whether Postville and the old Postville in Example 3 are or are not the same entity depends on the granularity of the discourse. On a sloppy reading, one can assume that because Postville refers to the same spatial coordinates, it is the same town. On a strict reading, in contrast, drawing a distinction between the town as it was at two different moments in time results in two different entities: the old Postville versus the present-day Postville. They are not the same in that features have changed from the former to the latter. The concept of sameness in paraphrasing has been questioned on many occasions. If we understood \"same meaning\" in the strictest sense, a large number of paraphrases would be ruled out. Thus, some authors argue for a looser definition of paraphrasing. Bhagat (2009) , for instance, talks about \"quasi-paraphrases\" as \"sentences or phrases that convey approximately the same meaning.\" Mili\u0107evi\u0107 (2007) draws a distinction between \"exact\" and \"approximate\" paraphrases. Finally, Fuchs (1994) prefers to use the notion of \"equivalence\" to \"identity\" on the grounds that the former allows for the existence of some semantic differences between the paraphrase pairs. The concept of identity in coreference, however, has hardly been questioned, as prototypical examples appear to be straightforward (e.g., Barack Obama and Obama and he). Only recently have Recasens, Hovy, and Mart\u00ed (2010) pointed out the need for talking about \"near-identity\" relations in order to account for cases such as Example (3), proposing a typology of such relations.",
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"text": "Conversely, knowing that a stretch of text next to an NP paraphrases another stretch of text next to another NP helps to identify a coreference link between the two NPs, as shown by Example (13), where two diction verbs are easily detected as a paraphrase and thus their subjects can be hypothesized to corefer. If the paraphrase system identifies the mapping between the indirect speech in Example (13a) and the direct speech in Example (13b), the coreference relation between the subjects is corroborated. Another difficult coreference link that can be detected with the help of paraphrasing is Example (14): If the predicates are recognized as paraphrases, then the subjects are likely to corefer. 13a. The trainer of the Cuban athlete Sotomayor said that the world record holder is in a fit state to win the Games in Sydney.",
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"text": "b. \"The record holder is in a fit state to win the Olympic Games,\" explained De la Torre. Taking this idea one step further, new coreference resolution strategies can be developed with the aid of shallow paraphrasing techniques. A two-step process for coreference resolution might consist of hypothesizing first sentence-level paraphrases via n-gram or named-entity overlapping, aligning phrases that are (possible) paraphrases, and hypothesizing that they corefer. Second, a coreference module can act as a filter and provide a second classification. Such a procedure could be successful for the cases exemplified in Examples (12) to (14). This strategy reverses the tacit assumption that coreference is solved before sentence-level paraphrasing. Meaning alone does not make it possible to state that the two pairs in Example (5b), repeated in Example (15), or the two pairs in Example (16) are paraphrases without first solving the coreference relations. However, cooperative work between paraphrasing and coreference is not always possible, and it is harder if neither of the two can be detected by means of widely used strategies. In other cases, cooperation can even be misleading. In Example (17), the two bold phrases are paraphrases, but their subjects do not corefer. The detection of words like another (Example (17b)) gives a key to help to prevent this kind of error. On the basis of these various examples, we claim that a full understanding of both the similarities and disparities will enable fruitful collaboration between researchers working on paraphrasing and those working on coreference. Even more importantly, our main claim is that such an understanding about the fundamental linguistic issues is a prerequisite for building paraphrase and coreference systems not lacking in linguistic rigor. In brief, we call for the return of linguistics to paraphrasing and coreference automatic applications, as well as to NLP in general, adhering to the call by Wintner (2009: 643) , who cites examples that demonstrate \"what computational linguistics can achieve when it is backed up and informed by linguistic theory\" (page 643).",
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