| Challenge: | Xu et al., 2015: paraphrases play an important role in natural language understanding . he says it is difficult to propose a paraphrasing relation for natural language processing systems . |
| Approach: | They propose a resource of such paraphrases that can be used to identify hidden paraphrase pairs . they propose to use the resource to identify paraphrase relationships between two words . |
| Outcome: | The proposed resource contains tens of thousands of such pairs and is available for academic purposes. |
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