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Iterative Edit-Based Unsupervised Sentence Simplification

17 Jun 2020ACL 2020 6arXiv:2006.09639archive 2025-07-28

Dhruv Kumar, Lili Mou, Lukasz Golab, Olga Vechtomova

We present a novel iterative, edit-based approach to unsupervised sentence simplification. Our model is guided by a scoring function involving fluency, simplicity, and meaning preservation. Then, we iteratively perform word and phrase-level edits on the complex sentence. Compared with previous approaches, our model does not require a parallel training set, but is more controllable and interpretable. Experiments on Newsela and WikiLarge datasets show that our approach is nearly as effective as state-of-the-art supervised approaches.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Text Simplification Newsela Edit-Unsup-TS BLEU 17.36 #5 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Text Simplification Newsela Edit-Unsup-TS SARI 30.44 #5 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Text Simplification TurkCorpus Edit-Unsup-TS BLEU 73.62 #11 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Text Simplification TurkCorpus Edit-Unsup-TS SARI (EASSE>=0.2.1) 37.85 #11 of 25 Archive leaderboard report

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