Shashi Narayan|Claire Gardent|Shay B. Cohen|Anastasia Shimorina
Split and Rephrase
University of Edinburgh|Lorraine Research Laboratory in Computer Science and its Applications|French National Centre for Scientific Research|University of Edinburgh|Lorraine Research Laboratory in Computer Science and its Applications|French National Centre for Scientific Research
propose new sentence simplification task splitandrephrase aim split complex sentence meaning preserving sequence shorter sentenceslike sentence simplification splittingandrephrasing potential benefiting natural language processing societal applicationsbecause shorter sentences generally better processed nlp systems could used preprocessing step facilitates improves performance parsers semantic role labelers machine translation systemsit also use people reading disabilities allows conversion longer sentences shorter onesthis paper makes two contributions towards new taskfirst create make available benchmark consisting 1066115 tuples mapping single complex sentence sequence sentences expressing meaning 1second propose five models vanilla sequencetosequence semanticallymotivated models understand difficulty proposed task