@inproceedings{gu-etal-2019-extract,
    title = "Extract, Transform and Filling: A Pipeline Model for Question Paraphrasing based on Template",
    author = "Gu, Yunfan  and
      Yuqiao, Yang  and
      Wei, Zhongyu",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019)",
    month = nov,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Hong Kong, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/D19-5514",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/D19-5514",
    pages = "109--114",
    abstract = "Question paraphrasing aims to restate a given question with different expressions but keep the original meaning. Recent approaches are mostly based on neural networks following a sequence-to-sequence fashion, however, these models tend to generate unpredictable results. To overcome this drawback, we propose a pipeline model based on templates. It follows three steps, a) identifies template from the input question, b) retrieves candidate templates, c) fills candidate templates with original topic words. Experiment results on two self-constructed datasets show that our model outperforms the sequence-to-sequence model in a large margin and the advantage is more promising when the size of training sample is small.",
}