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.- Anthology ID:
- W17-6307
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Parsing Technologies
- Month:
- September
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Pisa, Italy
- Editors:
- Yusuke Miyao, Kenji Sagae
- Venue:
- IWPT
- SIG:
- SIGPARSE
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 50–55
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W17-6307
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- John Lee and J. Buddhika K. Pathirage Don. 2017. Splitting Complex English Sentences. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Parsing Technologies, pages 50–55, Pisa, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Splitting Complex English Sentences (Lee & Don, IWPT 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/W17-6307.pdf