Simple PPDB: A Paraphrase Database for Simplification
Ellie Pavlick, Chris Callison-Burch · 2016
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 available resource for lexical simplification.