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Unsupervised Sentence Simplification via Dependency Parsing
Vy Vo, Weiqing Wang, Wray Buntine
Text simplification is the task of rewriting a text so that it is readable and easily understood. In this paper, we propose a simple yet novel unsupervised sentence simplification system that harnesses parsing structures together with sentence embeddings to produce linguistically effective simplifications. This means our model is capable of introducing substantial modifications to simplify a sentence while maintaining its original semantics and adequate fluency. We establish the unsupervised state-of-the-art at 39.13 SARI on TurkCorpus set and perform competitively against supervised baselines on various quality metrics. Furthermore, we demonstrate our framework's extensibility to other languages via a proof-of-concept on Vietnamese data. Code for reproduction is published at \url{https://github.com/isVy08/USDP}.
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