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AbLit: A Resource for Analyzing and Generating Abridged Versions of English Literature

Year: 2023

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Creating an abridged version of a text involves shortening it while maintaining its linguistic qualities.In this paper, we examine this task from an NLP perspective for the first time.We present a new resource, ABLIT, which is derived from abridged versions of English literature books.The dataset captures passage-level alignments between the original and abridged texts.We characterize the linguistic relations of these alignments, and create automated models to predict these relations as well as to generate abridgements for new texts.Our findings establish abridgement as a challenging task, motivating future resources and research.The dataset is available at github.com/roemmele/AbLit.

Source: Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.eacl-main.269

Authors: Melissa Roemmele, Kyle Shaffer, Katrina Olsen, Yiyi Wang, Steve DeNeefe

Language: English

Topic: Natural Language Processing Techniques

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4386576839

FWCI: 0.178

Cites: 20

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10