Anthropology Acrostics No. 1

Persian-translation Vol.1, No.1

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Cover Vol.1, No.1, April 2004

Generating Acrostics via Paraphrasing and Heuristic Search

We consider the problem of automatically paraphrasing a text in order to find an equivalent text that contains a given acrostic. A text contains an acrostic, if the first letters of a range of consecutive lines form a word or phrase. Our approach turns this paraphrasing task into an optimization problem: we use various existing and also new paraphrasing techniques as operators applicable to int...

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