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Text-to-text generation: Paraphrasing and Text Simplifcation

Module Description

Course	Module Abbreviation	Credit Points
BA-2010	AS-CL	8 LP
Master	SS-CL, SS-TAC	8 LP

Lecturer	Katja Markert
Module Type	Hauptseminar
Language	English
First Session	25.10.2018
Time and Place	Thursday, 14:15-15:45, SR 2, INF 327
Commitment Period	tbd.

Prerequisite for Participation

good knowledge of statistical methods
advanced BA students or MA students

Assessment

regular, constructive participation; completion of exercises
presentation
project or seminar paper

Inhalt

Whereas standard text generation methods start from abstract meaning representations, databases or knowledge bases, in text-to-text generation existing text is transformed into new text. Important applications for text-to-text generation include to make texts simpler, summarizing texts, adapting text to different audiences via wording changes or to generate dialogue turns by rephrasing prior ones.

There are (at least) four different types of text-to-text generation, namely

paraphrasing
text simplification (including sentence splitting)
sentence compression (and summarization)
sentence fusion

This seminar will investigate the first two, paraphrasing and text simplification, with a follow-on seminar in one of the next two semester looking at sentence compression and sentence fusion.
The methods we look at range from symbolic over statistical to neural methods, specifically sequence-rewriting methods.

Module Overview

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Will be announced at beginning of semester.