Sentence Simplification via Large Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11957v1
• Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:11:58 GMT
• Title: Sentence Simplification via Large Language Models
• Authors: Yutao Feng and Jipeng Qiang and Yun Li and Yunhao Yuan and Yi Zhu
• Abstract summary: Sentence Simplification aims to rephrase complex sentences into simpler sentences while retaining original meaning. Large Language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the ability to perform a variety of natural language processing tasks.
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• Abstract: Sentence Simplification aims to rephrase complex sentences into simpler sentences while retaining original meaning. Large Language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the ability to perform a variety of natural language processing tasks. However, it is not yet known whether LLMs can be served as a high-quality sentence simplification system. In this work, we empirically analyze the zero-/few-shot learning ability of LLMs by evaluating them on a number of benchmark test sets. Experimental results show LLMs outperform state-of-the-art sentence simplification methods, and are judged to be on a par with human annotators.

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