Survey on Paraphrase Extraction Techniques for Kannada

Abstract: Paraphrasing is a technique used to reframe the every word or phrase in a another way. The importance of a paraphrase is to clarify the content by re seeing and re-creating each word or phrase in every line. This paper presents paraphrasing sentences using synonym substitution, statistical model, semantic feature method. These methods are restricted to certain conditions. Paraphrase a word/sentence/passage when readers are not sure about its meaning. Restating a complex writing into simple terms may help better understand the content and purpose of the passage. Paraphrase recognition systems depend on lexical, syntactic and semantic features extracted from the candidate texts to identify equivalence. In the first approach, using data mining technology the target word and candidate phrases are retrieved from large corpus. It is simply extracting phrases from synonym dictionary.

Keywords: corpus, paraphrase, semantic, statistical, synonym.