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DisSim: A Discourse-Aware Syntactic Text Simplification Framework for English and German

Year: 2019

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: We introduce DisSim, a discourse-aware sentence splitting framework for English and German whose goal is to transform syntactically complex sentences into an intermediate representation that presents a simple and more regular structure which is easier to process for downstream semantic applications. For this purpose, we turn input sentences into a two-layered semantic hierarchy in the form of core facts and accompanying contexts, while identifying the rhetorical relations that hold between them. In that way, we preserve the coherence structure of the input and, hence, its interpretability for downstream tasks.

Source: International Conference on Natural Language Generation

DOI: 10.18653/v1/w19-8662

Authors: Christina Niklaus, Matthias Cetto, André Freitas, Siegfried Handschuh

Language: English

Topic: Text Readability and Simplification

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W2996265246

FWCI: 0.478

Cites: 11

Cited by: 10

Related to: 10