Condensing Sentences for Subtitle Generation

Text condensation aims at shortening the length of an utterance without losing essential textual information. In this paper, we report on the implementation and preliminary evaluation of a sentence condensation tool for Greek using a manually constructed table of 450 lexical paraphrases, and a set of rules that delete syntactic subtrees that carry minor semantic information. Evaluation on two sentence sets show promising results regarding grammaticality and semantic acceptability of compressed versions.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Prokopis Prokopidis, Vassia Karra, Aggeliki Papagianopoulou, Stelios Piperidis
• Keywords: Education, Essential Textual Information, LREC 2008, Sentence Condensation Tool, Text Condensation