Does splitting make sentence easier?
In this study, 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 easier to understand. Our primary goal in this study is to find out whether this is true. In particular, we ask, does it m...
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| description | In this study, 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 easier to understand. Our primary goal in this study is to find out whether this is true. In particular, we ask, does it matter whether we break a sentence into two, three, or more? We report on our findings based on Amazon Mechanical Turk. More specifically, we introduce a Bayesian modeling framework to further investigate to what degree a particular way of splitting the complex sentence affects readability, along with a number of other parameters adopted from diverse perspectives, including clinical linguistics, and cognitive linguistics. The Bayesian modeling experiment provides clear evidence that bisecting the sentence leads to enhanced readability to a degree greater than when we create simplification with more splits. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-48809c7c9f7040b080c058d495b289f52023-09-19T07:33:47ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence2624-82122023-09-01610.3389/frai.2023.12084511208451Does splitting make sentence easier?Tadashi NomotoIn this study, 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 easier to understand. Our primary goal in this study is to find out whether this is true. In particular, we ask, does it matter whether we break a sentence into two, three, or more? We report on our findings based on Amazon Mechanical Turk. More specifically, we introduce a Bayesian modeling framework to further investigate to what degree a particular way of splitting the complex sentence affects readability, along with a number of other parameters adopted from diverse perspectives, including clinical linguistics, and cognitive linguistics. The Bayesian modeling experiment provides clear evidence that bisecting the sentence leads to enhanced readability to a degree greater than when we create simplification with more splits.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2023.1208451/fullnatural language processingtext simplificationBayesian analysishuman evaluationreadability |
| spellingShingle | Tadashi Nomoto Does splitting make sentence easier? Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence natural language processing text simplification Bayesian analysis human evaluation readability |
| title | Does splitting make sentence easier? |
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| title_short | Does splitting make sentence easier? |
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| topic | natural language processing text simplification Bayesian analysis human evaluation readability |
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