Par4Sim – Adaptive Paraphrasing for Text Simplification

Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann


Abstract
Learning from a real-world data stream and continuously updating the model without explicit supervision is a new challenge for NLP applications with machine learning components. In this work, we have developed an adaptive learning system for text simplification, which improves the underlying learning-to-rank model from usage data, i.e. how users have employed the system for the task of simplification. Our experimental result shows that, over a period of time, the performance of the embedded paraphrase ranking model increases steadily improving from a score of 62.88% up to 75.70% based on the NDCG@10 evaluation metrics. To our knowledge, this is the first study where an NLP component is adaptively improved through usage.
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C18-1028
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Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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August
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2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Emily M. Bender, Leon Derczynski, Pierre Isabelle
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COLING
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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331–342
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Seid Muhie Yimam and Chris Biemann. 2018. Par4Sim – Adaptive Paraphrasing for Text Simplification. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 331–342, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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