A Sentence Simplification System for Improving Relation Extraction

Christina Niklaus, Bernhard Bermeitinger, Siegfried Handschuh, André Freitas


Abstract
We present a text simplification approach that is directed at improving the performance of state-of-the-art Open Relation Extraction (RE) systems. As syntactically complex sentences often pose a challenge for current Open RE approaches, we have developed a simplification framework that performs a pre-processing step by taking a single sentence as input and using a set of syntactic-based transformation rules to create a textual input that is easier to process for subsequently applied Open RE systems.
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C16-2036
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Hideo Watanabe
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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170–174
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Christina Niklaus, Bernhard Bermeitinger, Siegfried Handschuh, and André Freitas. 2016. A Sentence Simplification System for Improving Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 170–174, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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