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<Paper uid="W06-2907">
  <Title>Investigating Lexical Substitution Scoring for Subtitle Generation</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper investigates an isolated setting of the lexical substitution task of replacing words with their synonyms. In particular, we examine this problem in the setting of subtitle generation and evaluate state of the art scoring methods that predict the validity of a given substitution.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The paper evaluates two context independent models and two contextual models.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The major findings suggest that distributional similarity provides a useful complementary estimate for the likelihood that two Wordnet synonyms are indeed substitutable, while proper modeling of contextual constraints is still a challenging task for future research.</Paragraph>
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