The paper presents results of an investigation into paraphrase types in a corpus of biological English which consists of chapters drawn from biology textbooks published in the UK and the USA. By identifying the paraphrase type it is ascertained that implicit paraphrases are preferred, i.e. instances that are not introduced by paraphrase indicators.

Paraphrase types in the Pavia biology corpus: Some appositional constructions

BRUTI, SILVIA
2004-01-01

Abstract

The paper presents results of an investigation into paraphrase types in a corpus of biological English which consists of chapters drawn from biology textbooks published in the UK and the USA. By identifying the paraphrase type it is ascertained that implicit paraphrases are preferred, i.e. instances that are not introduced by paraphrase indicators.
2004
Bruti, Silvia
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