After parsing the input of a textual modeling language, further processing steps may be required before the result can be mapped to corresponding elements in a model. For instance, such a processing step can be the simplification of syntactic constructs. An approach for model simplification resting on transformation patterns is presented in this paper. The presented approach rests on the refine...

This paper advocates an approach whereby the needs of language-impaired readers are taken into account at the stage of text authoring by means of NLP integration. In our proposed system architecture, a simplification module produces candidate simplified rephrasings that the author of the text can accept or edit. This article describes the syntactic simplification module which has been partly im...

In this demo paper, 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 syn...

There has been a considerable suggestion in the literature that syntactic adaptation of a text would simplify it. This empirical study determined that the complexity of the syntax does not significantly affect the level of reading comprehension. While a complete conceptual and lexical analysis may be necessary for reading comprehension, a thorough syntactic analysis is not. This should be true ...

We release the Simple Paraphrase Database, a subset of of the Paraphrase Database (PPDB) adapted for the task of text simplification. We train a supervised model to associate simplification scores with each phrase pair, producing rankings competitive with state-of-theart lexical simplification models. Our new simplification database contains 4.5 million paraphrase rules, making it the largest a...

This paper presents ParTes, the first test suite in Spanish and Catalan for parsing qualitative evaluation. This resource is a hierarchical test suite of the representative syntactic structure and argument order phenomena. ParTes proposes a simplification of the qualitative evaluation by contributing to the automatization of this task.

In this paper, we explore the use of automatic syntactic simplification for improving content selection in multi-document summarization. In particular, we show how simplifying parentheticals by removing relative clauses and appositives results in improved sentence clustering, by forcing clustering based on central rather than background information. We argue that the inclusion of parenthetical ...

Syntactically complex sentences constitute an obstacle for some people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. This paper evaluates a set of simplification rules specifically designed for tackling complex and compound sentences. In total, 127 different rules were developed for the rewriting of complex sentences and 56 for the rewriting of compound sentences. The evaluation assessed the accuracy of th...

Several variants of a first-order simplification rule for non-normal form tableaux using syntactic constraints are presented. These can be used as a framework for porting refinements of clausal first-order proof procedures to non-normal form tableaux. Some experimental results obtained with a prototypical implementation are given.

We propose a statistical sentence simplification system with log-linear models. In contrast to state-of-the-art methods that drive sentence simplification process by hand-written linguistic rules, our method used a margin-based discriminative learning algorithm operates on a feature set. The feature set is defined on statistics of surface form as well as syntactic and dependency structures of t...