{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/semantic-structural-evaluation-for-text","title":"Semantic Structural Evaluation for Text Simplification","arxiv_id":"1810.05022","date":"2018-10-11","proceeding":"NAACL 2018 6","authors":["Elior Sulem","Omri Abend","Ari Rappoport"],"abstract":"Current measures for evaluating text simplification systems focus on\nevaluating lexical text aspects, neglecting its structural aspects. In this\npaper we propose the first measure to address structural aspects of text\nsimplification, called SAMSA. It leverages recent advances in semantic parsing\nto assess simplification quality by decomposing the input based on its semantic\nstructure and comparing it to the output. SAMSA provides a reference-less\nautomatic evaluation procedure, avoiding the problems that reference-based\nmethods face due to the vast space of valid simplifications for a given\nsentence. Our human evaluation experiments show both SAMSA's substantial\ncorrelation with human judgments, as well as the deficiency of existing\nreference-based measures in evaluating structural simplification.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05022v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.05022v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"semantic-structural-evaluation-for-text","repo_url":"https://github.com/eliorsulem/SAMSA","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"semantic-parsing","task_name":"Semantic Parsing"},{"task_slug":"sentence","task_name":"Sentence"},{"task_slug":"text-simplification","task_name":"Text Simplification"},{"task_slug":null,"task_name":"valid"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1810.05022","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}