# Annotation Guidelines for the Turku Paraphrase Corpus

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.07499 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.07499/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 1 of its 9 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 17 Aug 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Finnish Paraphrase Corpus](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.13103/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Semantic Search as Extractive Paraphrase Span Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.04886/) (2021)
- [What's Mine becomes Yours: Defining, Annotating and Detecting Context-Dependent Paraphrases in News Interview Dialogs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.06670/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This document describes the annotation guidelines used to construct the Turku Paraphrase Corpus. These guidelines were developed together with the corpus annotation, revising and extending the guidelines regularly during the annotation work. Our paraphrase annotation scheme uses the base scale 1-4, where labels 1 and 2 are used for negative candidates (not paraphrases), while labels 3 and 4 are paraphrases at least in the given context if not everywhere. In addition to base labeling, the scheme is enriched with additional subcategories (flags) for categorizing different types of paraphrases inside the two positive labels, making the annotation scheme suitable for more fine-grained paraphrase categorization. The annotation scheme is used to annotate over 100,000 Finnish paraphrase pairs.