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YATS: Yet Another Text Simplifier
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Author:
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Ferrés, Daniel; Marimon, Montserrat; Saggion, Horacio; AbuRa’ed, Ahmed
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Abstract:
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Comunicació presentada a la 21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2016), celebrada els dies 22 a 24 de juny de 2016 a Salford, Regne Unit. |
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We present a text simplifier for English that has been built with open source software and has both lexical and syntactic simplification capabilities. The lexical simplifier uses a vector space model approach to obtain the most appropriate sense of a given word in a given context and word frequency simplicity measures to rank synonyms. The syntactic simplifier uses linguistically-motivated rule-based syntactic analysis and generation techniques that rely on part-of-speech tags and syntactic dependency information. Experimental results show good performance of the lexical simplification component when compared to a hard-to-beat baseline, good syntactic simplification accuracy, and according to human assessment, improvements over the best reported results in the literature for a system with same architecture as YATS. |
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This work was funded by the ABLE-TO-INCLUDE project (European Commission CIP Grant No. 621055). Horacio Saggion is (partly) supported by the Spanish MINECO Ministry (MDM-2015-0502). |
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-Target word -Relative clause -Word sense disambiguation -Complex word -Subordinate clause |
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© Springer The final publication is available at Springer via
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41754-7_32
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Document type:
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Conference Object Article - Accepted version |
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Springer
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