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Controllable Sentence Simplification via Operation Classification

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Different types of transformations have been used to model sentence simplification ranging from mainly local operations such as phrasal or lexical rewriting, deletion and re-ordering to the more global affecting the whole input sentence such as sentence rephrasing, copying and splitting. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to sentence simplification which encompasses four global operations: whether to rephrase or copy and whether to split based on syntactic or discourse structure. We create a novel dataset that can be used to train highly accurate classification systems for these four operations. We propose a controllable-simplification model that tailors simplifications to these operations and show that it outperforms both end-to-end, non-controllable approaches and previous controllable approaches.

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hal-03792417 , version 1 (30-09-2022)

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Liam Cripwell, Joël Legrand, Claire Gardent. Controllable Sentence Simplification via Operation Classification. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022, May 2022, Seattle, United States. pp.2091--2103, ⟨10.18653/v1/2022.findings-naacl.161⟩. ⟨hal-03792417⟩
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