4 papers
The Fewer Splits are Better: Deconstructing Readability in Sentence Splitting
Tadashi Nomoto
In this work, we focus on sentence splitting, a subfield of text simplification, motivated largely by an unproven idea that if you divide a sentence in pieces, it should become eas…
Extended Multilingual Protest News Detection -- Shared Task 1, CASE 2021 and 2022
Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Osman Mutlu, Fırat Duruşan +12
We report results of the CASE 2022 Shared Task 1 on Multilingual Protest Event Detection. This task is a continuation of CASE 2021 that consists of four subtasks that are i) docume…
The Causal News Corpus: Annotating Causal Relations in Event Sentences from News
Fiona Anting Tan, Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Tommaso Caselli +7
Despite the importance of understanding causality, corpora addressing causal relations are limited. There is a discrepancy between existing annotation guidelines of event causality…
Learning to Simplify with Data Hopelessly Out of Alignment
Tadashi Nomoto
We consider whether it is possible to do text simplification without relying on a "parallel" corpus, one that is made up of sentence-by-sentence alignments of complex and ground tr…