Clause Extraction Task

A Clause Extraction Task is a sentence processing task that focuses on identifying and extracting Main Clauses and Subordinate Clauses from complex sentences. This task aims to separate individual clauses to analyze their functions and relationships within the sentence.

Context:
- It can be solved by a Clause Extraction System.
- It can support Sentence Decomposition Tasks (to break down complex sentences into simpler, independent units).
- It can involve determining the boundaries of clauses and their types (e.g., independent or dependent).
- It can requires understanding of syntax and semantics to accurately identify clauses and their roles.
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Example(s):
- ClauseExtraction("Although the weather was bad, the event continued as planned, and many people attended.")
  =>
  "Although the weather was bad (1), the event continued as planned (2), and many people attended (3)."
- ClauseExtraction("If you complete the task successfully, you will receive a bonus, but if you fail, there will be consequences.")
  =>
  "If you complete the task successfully (1), you will receive a bonus (2), but if you fail (3), there will be consequences (4)."
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Counter-Example(s):
- Sentence Combining, where individual clauses are merged into a complex sentence structure.
- Syntactic Sentence Parsing, which focuses more broadly on the full syntactic structure rather than specifically on clause extraction.
See: Sentence Decomposition Task, Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Syntax, Semantics.

References

(Dornescu, Evans, & Orǎsan, 2014) ⇒ Iustin Dornescu, Richard Evans, and Constantin Orǎsan. (2014). "Relative clause extraction for syntactic simplification." In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Automatic Text Simplification-Methods and Applications in the Multilingual Society (ATS-MA 2014), pp. 1-10.
- QUOTE: This paper investigates non-destructive simplification, a type of syntactic text simplification which focuses on extracting embedded clauses from structurally complex sentences and …

(Del Corro & Gemulla, 2013) ⇒ Luciano Del Corro, and Rainer Gemulla. (2013). "ClausIE: clause-based open information extraction." In: Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web, pp. 355-366.
- QUOTE: … clause-based approach to open information extraction… extractions. In more detail, ClausIE exploits linguistic knowledge about the grammar of the English language to first detect clauses …