@inproceedings{lee-don-2017-splitting,
    title = "Splitting Complex {E}nglish Sentences",
    author = "Lee, John  and
      Don, J. Buddhika K. Pathirage",
    editor = "Miyao, Yusuke  and
      Sagae, Kenji",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Parsing Technologies",
    month = sep,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Pisa, Italy",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-emnlp-2024-awards/W17-6307/",
    pages = "50--55",
    abstract = "This paper applies parsing technology to the task of syntactic simplification of English sentences, focusing on the identification of text spans that can be removed from a complex sentence. We report the most comprehensive evaluation to-date on this task, using a dataset of sentences that exhibit simplification based on coordination, subordination, punctuation/parataxis, adjectival clauses, participial phrases, and appositive phrases. We train a decision tree with features derived from text span length, POS tags and dependency relations, and show that it significantly outperforms a parser-only baseline."
}