[PDF] Top 20 Syntactic Sentence Simplification for French

... the sentence, transforming passive structures into active forms, and transforming a cleft to a ...new sentence. Resuming from the original sentence, the main clause is, in turn, removed to keep only ... See full document

... The field of text summarisation includes numer- ous approaches that can be regarded as examples of syntactic simplification. For example, Cohn and Lapata (2009) present a tree-to-tree transduction method ... See full document

... of syntactic complexity comprise conjunctions ([and], [but], [or]), a complementiser ([that]), wh-words ([what], [when], [where], [which], [while], [who]), punctuation marks ([,], [;], [:]), and 30 compound signs ... See full document

... of simplification is to achieve an im- provement in readability, defined as the ease with which a text can be ...the syntactic structures present in the text, and the usage of discourse ... See full document

... from syntactic parses into NLP ...a sentence, thus decomposing complicated syntax into small, easy-to-process ...basic syntactic patterns — for example, one rule “depassivizes” a sen- ...a ... See full document

... syntax-based sentence compression (Dunlavy et ...text simplification framework is to syntactically simplify a complex input sentence by splitting conjoined clauses into separate sentences and by ... See full document

... syntax-based sentence simplifier that models simplifi- cation using a probabilistic synchronous tree substitution grammar ...tional syntactic annotations that allow for better discrimination over previous ... See full document

... of French, that syntactic variation is a characteristic of the modern language, and not merely a distinction between the written and spoken ...the sentence, 9 the diglossia approach accounts for the ... See full document

... text simplification has evolved from research in sentence compression, a related research area that aims to shorten sentences for the purpose of summarising the main ...content. Sentence compression ... See full document

... on sentence simplification relied on handcrafted rules to capture syntactic simplifica- tion ...well-informed syntactic transformations, they do not account for lexical simplifications and ... See full document

... de simplification syntaxique qui composent notre programme sont respectivement des règles de suppression (12 règles), de modification (3 règles) et de division (4 ... See full document

... de simplification que nous proposons dans cet article, est fondée sur un apprentissage automatique, contrairement aux travaux que nous venons de ...la simplification en apprenant sur un petit corpus annoté, ... See full document

... the simplification module is to produce syntactically and lexically simplified versions of a new complex ...the syntactic and lexical simplification rule sets, and the complex sentence to be ... See full document

... Text simplification is the process of reducing the lexical and syntactic complexity of a text while attempting to preserve (most of) its information ...on syntactic complexity reduction and deals ... See full document

... long sentence into a sequence of shorter ...and syntactic transformations. While sentence splitting (Siddharthan, 2006; Petersen and Ostendorf, 2007; Narayan and Gardent, 2014; An- grosh et ...text ... See full document

... We introduce EASSE, a Python package aim- ing to facilitate and standardise automatic evaluation and comparison of Sentence Sim- plification (SS) systems. EASSE provides a single access point to a broad range of ... See full document

... We achieve a precision of 0.389 at the top slot on our SimpleSciGold standard set when we ap- ply our generation method and rank candidates by cosine similarity. This level of precision is higher than that achieved by ... See full document

... answer sentence relative to the answer itself is an- alyzed and linked to a certain syntactic question ...candidate sentence to be similar to the question in any ... See full document

... NSE as the encoder and an LSTM as the decoder performed the best among these models, improv- ing over strong simplification systems. (2) Sec- ond, we perform an extensive evaluation of vari- ous approaches ... See full document

... We present a new Japanese crowdsourced data set of simplified sentences created from more complex ones. Our simplicity standard involves all rewritable words in the simplified sentences being drawn from a core vocabulary ... See full document