In this paper, we experimentally evaluate the zero-shot performance of GPT-4 against prior
generations of GPT on the entire uniform bar examination (UBE), including not only the …

Over 30,000 field experiments with The Washington Post and Upworthy showed that readers
prefer simpler headlines (eg, more common words and more readable writing) over more …

Perhaps the most widely touted of GPT-4's at-launch, zero-shot capabilities has been its
reported 90th-percentile performance on the Uniform Bar Exam. This paper begins by …

Whereas principles of communicative efficiency and legal doctrine dictate that laws be
comprehensible to the common world, empirical evidence suggests legal documents are …

Research suggests that citizens often abstain from taking up benefits for which they are
eligible because of the costs of learning about how to apply for and the compliance and …

The transparency principle of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires data
processing information to be clear, precise, and accessible. While language models show …

Conversational assistants process personal data and must comply with data protection
regulations that require providers to be transparent with users about how their data is …

Over the last 50 years, there have been efforts on behalf of the US government to simplify
legal documents for society at large. However, there has been no systematic evaluation of …

Plain Language: A Psycholinguistic Approach employs principles from the field of
psycholinguistics to explore factors that make a sentence or text easy or difficult to process …

Prior research found a word complexity effect: Authors who use complex words are less
favorably received when writing academic essays, business letters, and other relatively …