TOPICS OF INTEREST

The workshop invites papers on a range of topics, including (but not limited to):

— Importance of paraphrases in NLP, paraphrase functions and software applications that can parse sentences and produce paraphrases

— Development of new linguistic resources for paraphrasing purposes

* Collaborative linguistic resources and resource integration

* Expert-crafted resources, such as large-coverage dictionaries and grammars with semantico-syntactic features aiming the identification of paraphrases in corpora

* Complex and dynamic libraries of resources

* Transformational analysis and local grammars for paraphrase generation

* Lexicon-grammar tables in paraphrasing

— Analysis, identification, and alignment of paraphrases in corpora

— Methods to collect paraphrastic data

— Paraphrastic multiword unit alignment

— Practical, text-processing applications using paraphrases

— Semantic Textual Similarity (STS)

— Natural Language Inference

— Textual Entailment

— Architecture, design, implementation and management of paraphrasing systems

— Practical experiences and testbeds related to the use of paraphrases

— Paraphrases involving distinct styles, language domains, expert/non-expert language, etc.

— Industrial experiences with paraphrases