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title = "Towards {A}rabic Sentence Simplification via Classification and Generative Approaches",
author = "Khallaf, Nouran and
Sharoff, Serge and
Soliman, Rasha",
editor = "Bouamor, Houda and
Al-Khalifa, Hend and
Darwish, Kareem and
Rambow, Owen and
Bougares, Fethi and
Abdelali, Ahmed and
Tomeh, Nadi and
Khalifa, Salam and
Zaghouani, Wajdi",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)",
month = dec,
year = "2022",
address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.wanlp-1.5",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.wanlp-1.5",
pages = "43--52",
abstract = "This paper presents an attempt to build a Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) sentence-level simplification system. We experimented with sentence simplification using two approaches: (i) a classification approach leading to lexical simplification pipelines which use Arabic-BERT, a pre-trained contextualised model, as well as a model of fastText word embeddings; and (ii) a generative approach, a Seq2Seq technique by applying a multilingual Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer mT5. We developed our training corpus by aligning the original and simplified sentences from the internationally acclaimed Arabic novel Saaq al-Bambuu. We evaluate effectiveness of these methods by comparing the generated simple sentences to the target simple sentences using the BERTScore evaluation metric. The simple sentences produced by the mT5 model achieve P 0.72, R 0.68 and F-1 0.70 via BERTScore, while, combining Arabic-BERT and fastText achieves P 0.97, R 0.97 and F-1 0.97. In addition, we report a manual error analysis for these experiments.",
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%A Khallaf, Nouran
%A Sharoff, Serge
%A Soliman, Rasha
%Y Bouamor, Houda
%Y Al-Khalifa, Hend
%Y Darwish, Kareem
%Y Rambow, Owen
%Y Bougares, Fethi
%Y Abdelali, Ahmed
%Y Tomeh, Nadi
%Y Khalifa, Salam
%Y Zaghouani, Wajdi
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%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
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%X This paper presents an attempt to build a Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) sentence-level simplification system. We experimented with sentence simplification using two approaches: (i) a classification approach leading to lexical simplification pipelines which use Arabic-BERT, a pre-trained contextualised model, as well as a model of fastText word embeddings; and (ii) a generative approach, a Seq2Seq technique by applying a multilingual Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer mT5. We developed our training corpus by aligning the original and simplified sentences from the internationally acclaimed Arabic novel Saaq al-Bambuu. We evaluate effectiveness of these methods by comparing the generated simple sentences to the target simple sentences using the BERTScore evaluation metric. The simple sentences produced by the mT5 model achieve P 0.72, R 0.68 and F-1 0.70 via BERTScore, while, combining Arabic-BERT and fastText achieves P 0.97, R 0.97 and F-1 0.97. In addition, we report a manual error analysis for these experiments.
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.wanlp-1.5
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.wanlp-1.5
%P 43-52
Markdown (Informal)
[Towards Arabic Sentence Simplification via Classification and Generative Approaches](https://aclanthology.org/2022.wanlp-1.5) (Khallaf et al., WANLP 2022)
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