Translating from Complex to Simplified Sentences
نویسنده
چکیده
We address the problem of simplifying Portuguese texts at the sentence level by treating it as a "translation task". We use the Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) framework to learn how to translate from complex to simplified sentences. Given a parallel corpus of original and simplified texts, aligned at the sentence level, we train a standard SMT system and evaluate the "translations" produced using both standard SMT metrics like BLEU and manual inspection. Results are promising according to both evaluations, showing that while the model is usually overcautious in producing simplifications, the overall quality of the sentences is not degraded and certain types of simplification operations, mainly lexical, are appropriately captured.
منابع مشابه
Translating sentences from ‘original’ to ‘simplified’ Spanish Traducción de frases del español ‘original’ al español ‘simplificado’
Text Simplification (TS) aims to convert complex sentences into their simpler variants, which are more accessible to wider audiences. Several recent studies addressed this problem as a monolingual machine translation (MT) problem (translating from ‘original’ to ‘simplified’ language instead of translating from one language into another) using the standard phrase-based statistical machine transl...
متن کاملIt’s More Complicated than That; Comment on “Translating Evidence into Healthcare Policy and Practice: Single Versus Multi-Faceted Implementation Strategies – Is There a Simple Answer to a Complex Question?”
In this commentary the findings from a systematic review that concluded there is no compelling evidence to suggest that implementing complicated, multi-faceted interventions is more effective than simple, single component interventions to changing healthcare professional’s behaviour are considered through the lens of Harvey and Kitson’s editorial. Whilst an appealing conclusion, it is one that ...
متن کاملTranslating from Original to Simplified Sentences using Moses: When does it Actually Work?
In recent years, several studies have approached the Text Simplification (TS) task as a machine translation (MT) problem. They report promising results in learning how to translate from ‘original’ to ‘simplified’ language using the standard phrasebased translation model. However, our results indicate that this approach works well only when the training dataset consists mostly of those sentence ...
متن کاملExtracting Simplified Statements for Factual Question Generation
We address the problem of automatically generating concise factual questions from linguistically complex sentences in reading materials. We discuss semantic and pragmatic issues that appear in complex sentences, and then we present an algorithm for extracting simplified sentences from appositives, subordinate clauses, and other constructions. We conjecture that our method is useful as a prelimi...
متن کاملa Simplified Model of Distributed Parameter Systems
A generalized simplified model for describing the dynamic behavior of distributed parameter systems is proposed. The various specific characteristics of gain and phase angle of distributed parameter systems are investigated from frequency response formulation and complex plane representation of the proposed simplified model. The complex plane investigation renders some important inequality cons...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
دوره شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010