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Sentence simplification aims to modify a sentence to make it easier to read and understand while preserving the meaning. Different applications require distinct simplification policies, such as replacing only complex words at the lexical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xuanxin Wu , Yuki Arase , Masaaki Nagata

Reading levels are highly individual and can depend on a text's language, a person's cognitive abilities, or knowledge on a topic. Text simplification is the task of rephrasing a text to better cater to the abilities of a specific target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Björn Engelmann , Fabian Haak , Christin Katharina Kreutz , Narjes Nikzad Khasmakhi , Philipp Schaer

Text simplification reduces the language complexity of professional content for accessibility purposes. End-to-end neural network models have been widely adopted to directly generate the simplified version of input text, usually functioning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Cristina Garbacea , Mengtian Guo , Samuel Carton , Qiaozhu Mei

We propose a task to generate a complex sentence from a simple sentence in order to amplify various kinds of responses in the database. We first divide a complex sentence into a main clause and a subordinate clause to learn a generator…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Tomoya Ogata , Mamoru Komachi , Tomoya Takatani

In this work, we focus on sentence splitting, a subfield of text simplification, motivated largely by an unproven idea that if you divide a sentence in pieces, it should become easier to understand. Our primary goal in this paper is to find…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Tadashi Nomoto

Recently, large language models such as GPT-2 have shown themselves to be extremely adept at text generation and have also been able to achieve high-quality results in many downstream NLP tasks such as text classification, sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Sam Witteveen , Martin Andrews

For both human readers and pre-trained language models (PrLMs), lexical diversity may lead to confusion and inaccuracy when understanding the underlying semantic meanings of given sentences. By substituting complex words with simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Rongzhou Bao , Jiayi Wang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Text simplification is the task of rewriting a text so that it is readable and easily understood. In this paper, we propose a simple yet novel unsupervised sentence simplification system that harnesses parsing structures together with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Vy Vo , Weiqing Wang , Wray Buntine

RST-style discourse parsing plays a vital role in many NLP tasks, revealing the underlying semantic/pragmatic structure of potentially complex and diverse documents. Despite its importance, one of the most prevailing limitations in modern…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Patrick Huber , Linzi Xing , Giuseppe Carenini

Many NLP pipelines split text into sentences as one of the crucial preprocessing steps. Prior sentence segmentation tools either rely on punctuation or require a considerable amount of sentence-segmented training data: both central…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Benjamin Minixhofer , Jonas Pfeiffer , Ivan Vulić

Document and discourse segmentation are two fundamental NLP tasks pertaining to breaking up text into constituents, which are commonly used to help downstream tasks such as information retrieval or text summarization. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Michal Lukasik , Boris Dadachev , Gonçalo Simões , Kishore Papineni

Patents are legal documents that aim at protecting inventions on the one hand and at making technical knowledge circulate on the other. Their complex style -- a mix of legal, technical, and extremely vague language -- makes their content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Silvia Casola , Alberto Lavelli , Horacio Saggion

Text simplification (TS) is the process of generating easy-to-understand sentences from a given sentence or piece of text. The aim of TS is to reduce both the lexical (which refers to vocabulary complexity and meaning) and syntactic (which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Andrei-Ionut Stan , Elena-Simona Apostol

The general goal of text simplification (TS) is to reduce text complexity for human consumption. This paper investigates another potential use of neural TS: assisting machines performing natural language processing (NLP) tasks. We evaluate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Hoang Van , Zheng Tang , Mihai Surdeanu

We find that existing language modeling datasets contain many near-duplicate examples and long repetitive substrings. As a result, over 1% of the unprompted output of language models trained on these datasets is copied verbatim from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Katherine Lee , Daphne Ippolito , Andrew Nystrom , Chiyuan Zhang , Douglas Eck , Chris Callison-Burch , Nicholas Carlini

Relation triple extraction, which outputs a set of triples from long sentences, plays a vital role in knowledge acquisition. Large language models can accurately extract triples from simple sentences through few-shot learning or fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Zepeng Ding , Wenhao Huang , Jiaqing Liang , Deqing Yang , Yanghua Xiao

We describe and analyze a simple and effective algorithm for sequence segmentation applied to speech processing tasks. We propose a neural architecture that is composed of two modules trained jointly: a recurrent neural network (RNN) module…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Yossi Adi , Joseph Keshet , Emily Cibelli , Matthew Goldrick

Sentence simplification aims to make sentences easier to read and understand. Most recent approaches draw on insights from machine translation to learn simplification rewrites from monolingual corpora of complex and simple sentences. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Xingxing Zhang , Mirella Lapata

Lexical Simplification (LS) is the task of replacing complex for simpler words in a sentence whilst preserving the sentence's original meaning. LS is the lexical component of Text Simplification (TS) with the aim of making texts more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Kai North , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Matthew Shardlow , Marcos Zampieri

We propose edit operation based lexically constrained decoding for sentence simplification. In sentence simplification, lexical paraphrasing is one of the primary procedures for rewriting complex sentences into simpler correspondences.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Tatsuya Zetsu , Yuki Arase , Tomoyuki Kajiwara