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

@inproceedings{Gao2021ABCDAG,
  title={ABCD: A Graph Framework to Convert Complex Sentences to a Covering Set of Simple Sentences},
  author={Yanjun Gao and Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang and R. Passonneau},
  booktitle={Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year={2021}
}
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… 
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