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Split and Rephrase: Better Evaluation and a Stronger Baseline

arXiv 1805.01035 ↗First posted 2 May 2018cs.CLcited by 15

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Splitting and rephrasing a complex sentence into several shorter sentences that convey the same meaning is a challenging problem in NLP. We show that while vanilla seq2seq models can reach high scores on the proposed benchmark (Narayan et al., 2017), they suffer from memorization of the training set which contains more than 89% of the unique simple sentences from the validation and test sets. To aid this, we present a new train-development-test data split and neural models augmented with a copy-mechanism, outperforming the best reported baseline by 8.68 BLEU and fostering further progress on the task.

Key facts. Cited by 15 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 2 May 2018.

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  1. 2020Text Generation by Learning from Demonstrationscited by 64
  2. 2021(Un)solving Morphological Inflection: Lemma Overlap Artificially Inflates Models' Performancecited by 20
  3. 2021BiSECT: Learning to Split and Rephrase Sentences with Bitextscited by 18
  4. 2021Exploring Decomposition for Table-based Fact Verificationcited by 11
  5. 2021ABCD: A Graph Framework to Convert Complex Sentences to a Covering Set of Simple Sentencescited by 5
  6. 2023Split and Rephrase with Large Language Modelscited by 5
  7. 2021Posthoc Verification and the Fallibility of the Ground Truthcited by 3
  8. 2021Text Simplification for Comprehension-based Question-Answeringcited by 3
  9. 2022Unsupervised Simplification of Legal Textscited by 3
  10. 2021With Measured Words: Simple Sentence Selection for Black-Box Optimization of Sentence Compression Algorithmscited by 2
  11. 2024WikiSplit++: Easy Data Refinement for Split and Rephrasecited by 2
  12. 2022A Survey of Parameters Associated with the Quality of Benchmarks in NLPcited by 1
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  1. 2023Discourse-Aware Text Simplification: From Complex Sentences to Linked Propositionscited by 1
  2. 2023CEScore: Simple and Efficient Confidence Estimation Model for Evaluating Split and Rephrasecited by 0
  3. 2023From Lengthy to Lucid: A Systematic Literature Review on NLP Techniques for Taming Long Sentencescited by 0