TY - GEN
T1 - Simple and effective text simplification using semantic and neural methods
AU - Sulem, Elior
AU - Abend, Omri
AU - Rappoport, Ari
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Association for Computational Linguistics
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Sentence splitting is a major simplification operator. Here we present a simple and efficient splitting algorithm based on an automatic semantic parser. After splitting, the text is amenable for further fine-tuned simplification operations. In particular, we show that neural Machine Translation can be effectively used in this situation. Previous application of Machine Translation for simplification suffers from a considerable disadvantage in that they are over-conservative, often failing to modify the source in any way. Splitting based on semantic parsing, as proposed here, alleviates this issue. Extensive automatic and human evaluation shows that the proposed method compares favorably to the state-of-the-art in combined lexical and structural simplification.
AB - Sentence splitting is a major simplification operator. Here we present a simple and efficient splitting algorithm based on an automatic semantic parser. After splitting, the text is amenable for further fine-tuned simplification operations. In particular, we show that neural Machine Translation can be effectively used in this situation. Previous application of Machine Translation for simplification suffers from a considerable disadvantage in that they are over-conservative, often failing to modify the source in any way. Splitting based on semantic parsing, as proposed here, alleviates this issue. Extensive automatic and human evaluation shows that the proposed method compares favorably to the state-of-the-art in combined lexical and structural simplification.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/p18-1016
DO - https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/p18-1016
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - ACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers)
SP - 162
EP - 173
BT - ACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers)
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2018
Y2 - 15 July 2018 through 20 July 2018
ER -