{"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/split-and-rephrase","title":"Split and Rephrase","arxiv_id":"1707.06971","date":"2017-07-21","proceeding":"EMNLP 2017 9","authors":["Shashi Narayan","Claire Gardent","Shay B. Cohen","Anastasia Shimorina"],"abstract":"We propose a new sentence simplification task (Split-and-Rephrase) where the\naim is to split a complex sentence into a meaning preserving sequence of\nshorter sentences. Like sentence simplification, splitting-and-rephrasing has\nthe potential of benefiting both natural language processing and societal\napplications. Because shorter sentences are generally better processed by NLP\nsystems, it could be used as a preprocessing step which facilitates and\nimproves the performance of parsers, semantic role labellers and machine\ntranslation systems. It should also be of use for people with reading\ndisabilities because it allows the conversion of longer sentences into shorter\nones. This paper makes two contributions towards this new task. First, we\ncreate and make available a benchmark consisting of 1,066,115 tuples mapping a\nsingle complex sentence to a sequence of sentences expressing the same meaning.\nSecond, we propose five models (vanilla sequence-to-sequence to\nsemantically-motivated models) to understand the difficulty of the proposed\ntask.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06971v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.06971v1.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":"split-and-rephrase","repo_url":"https://github.com/shashiongithub/Split-and-Rephrase","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"split-and-rephrase","repo_url":"https://github.com/atb033/multi_agent_path_planning","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"machine-translation","task_name":"Machine Translation"},{"task_slug":"sentence","task_name":"Sentence"},{"task_slug":"split-and-rephrase","task_name":"Split and Rephrase"},{"task_slug":"translation","task_name":"Translation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1707.06971","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}