@InProceedings{lee-don:2017:IWPT,
  author    = {Lee, John  and  Don, J. Buddhika K. Pathirage},
  title     = {Splitting Complex English Sentences},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Parsing Technologies},
  month     = {September},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Pisa, Italy},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {50--55},
  abstract  = {This paper applies parsing technology to the task of syntactic simplification
	of English sentences, focusing on the identification of text spans that can be
	removed from a complex sentence.  We report the most comprehensive evaluation
	to-date on this task, using a dataset of sentences that exhibit simplification
	based on coordination, subordination, punctuation/parataxis, adjectival
	clauses, participial phrases, and appositive phrases.  We train a decision tree
	with features derived from text span length, POS tags and dependency relations,
	and show that it significantly outperforms a parser-only baseline.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-6307}
}