Exploring Verb Frames for Sentence Simplification in Hindi

Systems processing on natural language text encounters fatal problems due to long and complex sentences. Their performance degrades as the complexity of the sentence increases. This paper addresses the task of simplifying complex sentences in Hindi into multiple simple sentences, using a rule based approach. Our approach utilizes two linguistic resources viz. verb demand frames and conjuncts’ list. We performed automatic as well as human evaluation of our system.

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