| Challenge: | Existing approaches for recursively splitting and rephrasing complex English sentences into a semantic hierarchy of simplified sentences are lacking. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for recursively splitting and rephrasing complex English sentences into a semantic hierarchy of simplified sentences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in MT and information extraction tasks. |
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