... Chinawanghaifeng@rdc.toshiba.com.cnAbstract Paraphrase patterns are useful in paraphrase recognition and generation. In this paper, wepresent a pivot approach for extracting para-phrase patterns from bilingual parallel ... 780–788,Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 2008.c2008 Association for Computational LinguisticsPivot Approach for Extracting Paraphrase Patterns from Bilingual CorporaShiqi Zhao1, Haifeng Wang2, Ting ... of paraphrase patterns from 2M bilingual sentence pairs, the precisionof which exceeds 67%. The evaluation re-sults show that: (1) The pivot approach iseffective in extracting paraphrase patterns, which...