{"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/simple-and-effective-text-simplification","title":"Simple and Effective Text Simplification Using Semantic and Neural Methods","arxiv_id":"1810.05104","date":"2018-10-11","proceeding":"ACL 2018 7","authors":["Elior Sulem","Omri Abend","Ari Rappoport"],"abstract":"Sentence splitting is a major simplification operator. Here we present a\nsimple and efficient splitting algorithm based on an automatic semantic parser.\nAfter splitting, the text is amenable for further fine-tuned simplification\noperations. In particular, we show that neural Machine Translation can be\neffectively used in this situation. Previous application of Machine Translation\nfor simplification suffers from a considerable disadvantage in that they are\nover-conservative, often failing to modify the source in any way. Splitting\nbased on semantic parsing, as proposed here, alleviates this issue. Extensive\nautomatic and human evaluation shows that the proposed method compares\nfavorably to the state-of-the-art in combined lexical and structural\nsimplification.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05104v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.05104v1.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":[],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"machine-translation","task_name":"Machine Translation"},{"task_slug":"semantic-parsing","task_name":"Semantic Parsing"},{"task_slug":"sentence","task_name":"Sentence"},{"task_slug":"text-simplification","task_name":"Text Simplification"},{"task_slug":"translation","task_name":"Translation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/text-simplification-on-turkcorpus","task":"Text Simplification","dataset":"TurkCorpus","model":"SEMoses","rank_in_archive_order":19,"of":25,"metrics":{"BLEU":"74.49","SARI (EASSE>=0.2.1)":"36.70"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1810.05104","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}