Text simplification using synchronous dependency grammars: Generalising automatically harvested rules
Mandya Angrosh, Advaith Siddharthan · 2014
We present an approach to text simplifi-cation based on synchronous dependency grammars. Our main contributions in this work are (a) a study of how automatically derived lexical simplification rules can be generalised to enable their application in new contexts without introducing errors, and (b) an evaluation of our hybrid sys-tem that combines a large set of automat-ically acquired rules with a small set of hand-crafted rules for common syntactic simplification. Our evaluation shows sig-nificant improvements over the state of the art, with scores comparable to human sim-plifications. 1