Condensing Sentences for Subtitle Generation

Prokopis Prokopidis, Vassia Karra, Aggeliki Papagianopoulou, Stelios Piperidis


Abstract
Text condensation aims at shortening the length of an utterance without losing essential textual information. In this paper, we report on the implementation and preliminary evaluation of a sentence condensation tool for Greek using a manually constructed table of 450 lexical paraphrases, and a set of rules that delete syntactic subtrees that carry minor semantic information. Evaluation on two-sentence sets show promising results regarding grammaticality and semantic acceptability of compressed versions.
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Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)
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May
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2008
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Marrakech, Morocco
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Prokopis Prokopidis, Vassia Karra, Aggeliki Papagianopoulou, and Stelios Piperidis. 2008. Condensing Sentences for Subtitle Generation. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Condensing Sentences for Subtitle Generation (Prokopidis et al., LREC 2008)
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