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title = "Target-Level Sentence Simplification as Controlled Paraphrasing",
author = "Kew, Tannon and
Ebling, Sarah",
editor = "{\v{S}}tajner, Sanja and
Saggion, Horacio and
Ferr{\'e}s, Daniel and
Shardlow, Matthew and
Sheang, Kim Cheng and
North, Kai and
Zampieri, Marcos and
Xu, Wei",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022)",
month = dec,
year = "2022",
address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Virtual)",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.tsar-1.4",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.tsar-1.4",
pages = "28--42",
abstract = "Automatic text simplification aims to reduce the linguistic complexity of a text in order to make it easier to understand and more accessible. However, simplified texts are consumed by a diverse array of target audiences and what might be appropriately simplified for one group of readers may differ considerably for another. In this work we investigate a novel formulation of sentence simplification as paraphrasing with controlled decoding. This approach aims to alleviate the major burden of relying on large amounts of in-domain parallel training data, while at the same time allowing for modular and adaptive simplification. According to automatic metrics, our approach performs competitively against baselines that prove more difficult to adapt to the needs of different target audiences or require significant amounts of complex-simple parallel aligned data.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Target-Level Sentence Simplification as Controlled Paraphrasing
%A Kew, Tannon
%A Ebling, Sarah
%Y Štajner, Sanja
%Y Saggion, Horacio
%Y Ferrés, Daniel
%Y Shardlow, Matthew
%Y Sheang, Kim Cheng
%Y North, Kai
%Y Zampieri, Marcos
%Y Xu, Wei
%S Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022)
%D 2022
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Virtual)
%F kew-ebling-2022-target
%X Automatic text simplification aims to reduce the linguistic complexity of a text in order to make it easier to understand and more accessible. However, simplified texts are consumed by a diverse array of target audiences and what might be appropriately simplified for one group of readers may differ considerably for another. In this work we investigate a novel formulation of sentence simplification as paraphrasing with controlled decoding. This approach aims to alleviate the major burden of relying on large amounts of in-domain parallel training data, while at the same time allowing for modular and adaptive simplification. According to automatic metrics, our approach performs competitively against baselines that prove more difficult to adapt to the needs of different target audiences or require significant amounts of complex-simple parallel aligned data.
%R 10.18653/v1/2022.tsar-1.4
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.tsar-1.4
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.tsar-1.4
%P 28-42
Markdown (Informal)
[Target-Level Sentence Simplification as Controlled Paraphrasing](https://aclanthology.org/2022.tsar-1.4) (Kew & Ebling, TSAR 2022)
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