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Sentence Simplification is a valuable technique that can benefit language learners and children a lot. However, current research focuses more on English sentence simplification. The development of Chinese sentence simplification is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Shiping Yang , Renliang Sun , Xiaojun Wan

Text simplification aims to make the text easier to understand by applying rewriting transformations. There has been very little research on Chinese text simplification for a long time. The lack of generic evaluation data is an essential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Ruining Chong , Luming Lu , Liner Yang , Jinran Nie , Zhenghao Liu , Shuo Wang , Shuhan Zhou , Yaoxin Li , Erhong Yang

Lexical Simplification (LS) methods use a three-step pipeline: complex word identification, substitute generation, and substitute ranking, each with separate evaluation datasets. We found large language models (LLMs) can simplify sentences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Jipeng Qiang , Minjiang Huang , Yi Zhu , Yunhao Yuan , Chaowei Zhang , Xiaoye Ouyang

This work proposes a simple training-free prompt-free approach to leverage large language models (LLMs) for the Chinese spelling correction (CSC) task, which is totally different from all previous CSC approaches. The key idea is to use an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Houquan Zhou , Zhenghua Li , Bo Zhang , Chen Li , Shaopeng Lai , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Min Zhang

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

Lexical simplification (LS) aims to replace complex words in a given sentence with their simpler alternatives of equivalent meaning. Recently unsupervised lexical simplification approaches only rely on the complex word itself regardless of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Jipeng Qiang , Yun Li , Yi Zhu , Yunhao Yuan , Xindong Wu

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

Cross-lingual summarization (CLS) is the task to produce a summary in one particular language for a source document in a different language. Existing methods simply divide this task into two steps: summarization and translation, leading to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Junnan Zhu , Qian Wang , Yining Wang , Yu Zhou , Jiajun Zhang , Shaonan Wang , Chengqing Zong

Text Simplification is an ongoing problem in Natural Language Processing, solution to which has varied implications. In conjunction with the TSAR-2022 Workshop @EMNLP2022 Lexical Simplification is the process of reducing the lexical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Nikita Katyal , Pawan Kumar Rajpoot

Lexical simplification (LS) aims to replace complex words in a given sentence with their simpler alternatives of equivalent meaning, to simplify the sentence. Recently unsupervised lexical simplification approaches only rely on the complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Jipeng Qiang , Yun Li , Yi Zhu , Yunhao Yuan , Xindong Wu

Cross-lingual summarization is the task of generating a summary in one language (e.g., English) for the given document(s) in a different language (e.g., Chinese). Under the globalization background, this task has attracted increasing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Jiaan Wang , Fandong Meng , Duo Zheng , Yunlong Liang , Zhixu Li , Jianfeng Qu , Jie Zhou

Lexical Simplification (LS) automatically replaces difficult to read words for easier alternatives while preserving a sentence's original meaning. LS is a precursor to Text Simplification with the aim of improving text accessibility to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Kai North , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Matthew Shardlow , Marcos Zampieri

Cross-lingual Summarization (CLS) aims at producing a summary in the target language for an article in the source language. Traditional solutions employ a two-step approach, i.e. translate then summarize or summarize then translate.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ruochen Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Yu Shi , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang

Text generation rarely considers the control of lexical complexity, which limits its more comprehensive practical application. We introduce a novel task of lexical complexity controlled sentence generation, which aims at keywords to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jinran Nie , Liner Yang , Yun Chen , Cunliang Kong , Junhui Zhu , Erhong Yang

Even in highly-developed countries, as many as 15-30\% of the population can only understand texts written using a basic vocabulary. Their understanding of everyday texts is limited, which prevents them from taking an active role in society…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Sanja Stajner , Daniel Ferres , Matthew Shardlow , Kai North , Marcos Zampieri , Horacio Saggion

Cross-Lingual Summarization (CLS) aims at generating summaries in one language for the given documents in another language. CLS has attracted wide research attention due to its practical significance in the multi-lingual world. Though great…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Shaohui Zheng , Zhixu Li , Jiaan Wang , Jianfeng Qu , An Liu , Lei Zhao , Zhigang Chen

Sentence Simplification aims to rephrase complex sentences into simpler sentences while retaining original meaning. Large Language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the ability to perform a variety of natural language processing tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yutao Feng , Jipeng Qiang , Yun Li , Yunhao Yuan , Yi Zhu

Chinese Spelling Correction (CSC) is a critical task in natural language processing, aimed at detecting and correcting spelling errors in Chinese text. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of CSC, tracing its evolution from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Changchun Liu , Kai Zhang , Junzhe Jiang , Zixiao Kong , Qi Liu , Enhong Chen

Sememes are minimum semantic units of concepts in human languages, such that each word sense is composed of one or multiple sememes. Words are usually manually annotated with their sememes by linguists, and form linguistic common-sense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Huiming Jin , Hao Zhu , Zhiyuan Liu , Ruobing Xie , Maosong Sun , Fen Lin , Leyu Lin

Cross-Lingual Summarization (CLS) is the task to generate a summary in one language for an article in a different language. Previous studies on CLS mainly take pipeline methods or train the end-to-end model using the translated parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Shuyu Jiang , Dengbiao Tu , Xingshu Chen , Rui Tang , Wenxian Wang , Haizhou Wang
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