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In this paper we present a first-ever manually-built Chinese sentence compression corpus. Based on this corpus, we develop a Chinese sentence compression system and study various measures for evaluation of Chinese sentence compression. We find that 1) using multi-references is very helpful for automatic evaluation in Chinese sentence compression; and 2) besides relational F1, some machine translation evaluation measures are correlated well with human judgments and thus are very promising for future use in this task.
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Zhang, C., Hu, M., Xiao, T., Jiang, X., Shi, L., Zhu, J. (2013). Chinese Sentence Compression: Corpus and Evaluation. In: Sun, M., Zhang, M., Lin, D., Wang, H. (eds) Chinese Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Based on Naturally Annotated Big Data. NLP-NABD CCL 2013 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8202. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41491-6_24
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