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<Paper uid="P06-2096">
  <Title>Adding Syntax to Dynamic Programming for Aligning Comparable Texts for the Generation of Paraphrases</Title>
  <Section position="7" start_page="753" end_page="753" type="concl">
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we presented a paraphrase generation method based on multiple sequence alignment which combines traditional dynamic programming techniques with linguistically motivated syntactic information. We apply our work on comparable texts for which syntax has not been successfully explored in alignment by previous work. We showed that using syntactic features improves the quality of the alignment-induced finite state automaton when it is used for generating novel sentences. The strongest syntax guided alignment significantly outperformed all other versions in both grammaticality and fidelity of the novel sentences.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In this paper we showed the effectiveness of using syntax in the alignment of structurally diverse comparable texts as needed for text generation.</Paragraph>
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