Statistics-Based Summarization - Step One: Sentence Compression
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Computational Linguistics
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ACL '05 Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
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HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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Moses: open source toolkit for statistical machine translation
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EMNLP '08 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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EMNLP '08 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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SLSP'13 Proceedings of the First international conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing
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In this paper we describe a method for simplifying sentences using Phrase Based Machine Translation, augmented with a re-ranking heuristic based on dissimilarity, and trained on a monolingual parallel corpus. We compare our system to a word-substitution baseline and two state-of-the-art systems, all trained and tested on paired sentences from the English part of Wikipedia and Simple Wikipedia. Human test subjects judge the output of the different systems. Analysing the judgements shows that by relatively careful phrase-based paraphrasing our model achieves similar simplification results to state-of-the-art systems, while generating better formed output. We also argue that text readability metrics such as the Flesch-Kincaid grade level should be used with caution when evaluating the output of simplification systems.