Japanese Sentence Compression Using Simple English Wikipedia

Japanese Sentence Compression Using Simple English Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2015, written by Shunsuke Takeno and Kazuhide Yamamoto.

Overview

Authors describe a cross-lingual approach for sentence compression of articles of Japanese Wikipedia using the correspondence of articles of Simple English Wikipedia. Taking advantages of the nature of the corpus, authors can find essential parts from encyclopedic description without highly depending on the statistical information which are noisy. Authors manually explored the correspondences between the articles of Japanese Wikipedia and those of Simple English Wikipedia and then proposed a cross-lingual alignment method using simple matching algorithm. Authors provide an analysis of the abovementioned correspondence and the preliminary result of sentence compression using Simple English Wikipedia.