@InProceedings{niklaus-EtAl:2016:COLINGDEMO,
  author    = {Niklaus, Christina  and  Bermeitinger, Bernhard  and  Handschuh, Siegfried  and  Freitas, Andr\'{e}},
  title     = {A Sentence Simplification System for Improving Relation Extraction},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {170--174},
  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.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/C16-2036}
}