Readability-guided Idiom-aware Sentence Simplification (RISS) for Chinese

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Main Authors: Zhang, Jingshen, Chen, Xinglu, Qiu, Xinying, Wang, Zhimin, Feng, Wenhe
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author Zhang, Jingshen
Chen, Xinglu
Qiu, Xinying
Wang, Zhimin
Feng, Wenhe
author_facet Zhang, Jingshen
Chen, Xinglu
Qiu, Xinying
Wang, Zhimin
Feng, Wenhe
contents Chinese sentence simplification faces challenges due to the lack of large-scale labeled parallel corpora and the prevalence of idioms. To address these challenges, we propose Readability-guided Idiom-aware Sentence Simplification (RISS), a novel framework that combines data augmentation techniques with lexcial simplification. RISS introduces two key components: (1) Readability-guided Paraphrase Selection (RPS), a method for mining high-quality sentence pairs, and (2) Idiom-aware Simplification (IAS), a model that enhances the comprehension and simplification of idiomatic expressions. By integrating RPS and IAS using multi-stage and multi-task learning strategies, RISS outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods on two Chinese sentence simplification datasets. Furthermore, RISS achieves additional improvements when fine-tuned on a small labeled dataset. Our approach demonstrates the potential for more effective and accessible Chinese text simplification.
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spellingShingle Readability-guided Idiom-aware Sentence Simplification (RISS) for Chinese
Zhang, Jingshen
Chen, Xinglu
Qiu, Xinying
Wang, Zhimin
Feng, Wenhe
Computation and Language
Chinese sentence simplification faces challenges due to the lack of large-scale labeled parallel corpora and the prevalence of idioms. To address these challenges, we propose Readability-guided Idiom-aware Sentence Simplification (RISS), a novel framework that combines data augmentation techniques with lexcial simplification. RISS introduces two key components: (1) Readability-guided Paraphrase Selection (RPS), a method for mining high-quality sentence pairs, and (2) Idiom-aware Simplification (IAS), a model that enhances the comprehension and simplification of idiomatic expressions. By integrating RPS and IAS using multi-stage and multi-task learning strategies, RISS outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods on two Chinese sentence simplification datasets. Furthermore, RISS achieves additional improvements when fine-tuned on a small labeled dataset. Our approach demonstrates the potential for more effective and accessible Chinese text simplification.
title Readability-guided Idiom-aware Sentence Simplification (RISS) for Chinese
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02974