ABCD: A Graph Framework to Convert Complex Sentences to a Covering Set of Simple Sentences

Understand

Atomic clauses are fundamental text units for understanding complex sentences.

• Identifying the atomic sentences within complex sentences is important for applications such as summarization, argument mining, discourse analysis, discourse parsing, and question answering.
• Previous work mainly relies on rule-based methods dependent on parsing.
• We propose a new task to decompose each complex sentence into simple sentences derived from the tensed clauses in the source, and a novel problem formulation as a graph edit task.