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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Scalable and Domain-General Abstractive Proposition Segmentation
%A Hosseini, Mohammad Javad
%A Gao, Yang
%A Baumgärtner, Tim
%A Fabrikant, Alex
%A Amplayo, Reinald Kim
%Y Al-Onaizan, Yaser
%Y Bansal, Mohit
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024
%D 2024
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Miami, Florida, USA
%F hosseini-etal-2024-scalable
%X Segmenting text into fine-grained units of meaning is important to a wide range of NLP applications. The default approach of segmenting text into sentences is often insufficient, especially since sentences are usually complex enough to include multiple units of meaning that merit separate treatment in the downstream task. We focus on the task of abstractive proposition segmentation (APS): transforming text into simple, self-contained, well-formed sentences. Several recent works have demonstrated the utility of proposition segmentation with few-shot prompted LLMs for downstream tasks such as retrieval-augmented grounding and fact verification. However, this approach does not scale to large amounts of text and may not always extract all the facts from the input text.In this paper, we first introduce evaluation metrics for the task to measure several dimensions of quality.We then propose a scalable, yet accurate, proposition segmentation model. We model proposition segmentation as a supervised task by training LLMs on existing annotated datasets and show that training yields significantly improved results. We further show that by using the fine-tuned LLMs (Gemini Pro and Gemini Ultra) as teachers for annotating large amounts of multi-domain synthetic distillation data, we can train smaller student models (Gemma 1 2B and 7B) with results similar to the teacher LLMs. We then demonstrate that our technique leads to effective domain generalization, by annotating data in two domains outside the original training data and evaluating on them. Finally, as a key contribution of the paper, we share an easy-to-use API for NLP practitioners to use.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.517
%P 8856-8872

Markdown (Informal)

[Scalable and Domain-General Abstractive Proposition Segmentation](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.517) (Hosseini et al., Findings 2024)

• Scalable and Domain-General Abstractive Proposition Segmentation (Hosseini et al., Findings 2024)

ACL

• Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Yang Gao, Tim Baumgärtner, Alex Fabrikant, and Reinald Kim Amplayo. 2024. Scalable and Domain-General Abstractive Proposition Segmentation. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, pages 8856–8872, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.