2 Since this constant is not informative with respect to the relative scores of the paraphrases for a particular query, we drop it from consideration, and use only the frequencies to calculate the score of a paraphrase.
our paraphrase scoring function is (2) When calculating the score of a paraphrase using Equation 2, the following aspects regarding freq¨ § ¡ ¦ £ must be specified: (1) the extent to which the order of ¡ and £ (as it appears in the paraphrase) should be enforced; and (2) how to handle ¡ -£ pairs in the paraphrase that are absent from the lemmapair dictionary.