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Reluctant Paraphrase: Textual Restructuring under an Optimisation Model
Mark Dras
This paper develops a computational model of paraphrase under which text modification is carried out reluctantly; that is, there are external constraints, such as length or readabi…
Death and Lightness: Using a Demographic Model to Find Support Verbs
Mark Dras, Mike Johnson
Some verbs have a particular kind of binary ambiguity: they can carry their normal, full meaning, or they can be merely acting as a prop for the nominal object. It has been suggest…
Automatic Identification of Support Verbs: A Step Towards a Definition of Semantic Weight
Mark Dras
Current definitions of notions of lexical density and semantic weight are based on the division of words into closed and open classes, and on intuition. This paper develops a compu…
A Probabilistic Model of Compound Nouns
Mark Lauer, Mark Dras
Compound nouns such as example noun compound are becoming more common in natural language and pose a number of difficult problems for NLP systems, notably increasing the complexity…