Controllable Sentence Simplification

Understand

Text simplification aims at making a text easier to read and understand by simplifying grammar and structure while keeping the underlying information identical.

• It is often considered an all-purpose generic task where the same simplification is suitable for all; however multiple audiences can benefit from simplified text in different ways.
• We adapt a discrete parametrization mechanism that provides explicit control on simplification systems based on Sequence-to-Sequence models.
• As a result, users can condition the simplifications returned by a model on attributes such as length, amount of paraphrasing, lexical complexity and syntactic complexity.