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Sentence Simplification with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks

20 Apr 2018NAACL 2018 6arXiv:1804.07445archive 2025-07-28

Tu Vu, Baotian Hu, Tsendsuren Munkhdalai, Hong Yu

Sentence simplification aims to simplify the content and structure of complex sentences, and thus make them easier to interpret for human readers, and easier to process for downstream NLP applications. Recent advances in neural machine translation have paved the way for novel approaches to the task. In this paper, we adapt an architecture with augmented memory capacities called Neural Semantic Encoders (Munkhdalai and Yu, 2017) for sentence simplification. Our experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on different simplification datasets, both in terms of automatic evaluation measures and human judgments.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Text Simplification Newsela NSELSTM-S BLEU 22.62 #6 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Text Simplification Newsela NSELSTM-S SARI 29.58 #6 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Text Simplification Newsela NSELSTM-B BLEU 26.31 #7 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Text Simplification Newsela NSELSTM-B SARI 27.42 #7 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Text Simplification PWKP / WikiSmall NSELSTM-B BLEU 53.42 #1 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Text Simplification PWKP / WikiSmall NSELSTM-B SARI 17.47 #1 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Text Simplification PWKP / WikiSmall NSELSTM-S BLEU 29.72 #5 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Text Simplification PWKP / WikiSmall NSELSTM-S SARI 29.75 #5 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Text Simplification TurkCorpus NSELSTM-S BLEU 80.43 #18 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Text Simplification TurkCorpus NSELSTM-S SARI (EASSE>=0.2.1) 36.88 #18 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Text Simplification TurkCorpus NSELSTM-B BLEU 92.02 #21 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Text Simplification TurkCorpus NSELSTM-B SARI (EASSE>=0.2.1) 33.43 #21 of 25 Archive leaderboard report

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