A survey of automated methods for biomedical text simplification

B Ondov, K Attal… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Objective Plain language in medicine has long been advocated as a way to improve patient
understanding and engagement. As the field of Natural Language Processing has …

LENS: A learnable evaluation metric for text simplification

M Maddela, Y Dou, D Heineman, W Xu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2212.09739, 2022 - arxiv.org
Training learnable metrics using modern language models has recently emerged as a
promising method for the automatic evaluation of machine translation. However, existing …

Generative language models for paragraph-level question generation

A Ushio, F Alva-Manchego… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Powerful generative models have led to recent progress in question generation (QG).
However, it is difficult to measure advances in QG research since there are no standardized …

On the ethical considerations of text simplification

S Gooding - arxiv preprint arxiv:2204.09565, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper outlines the ethical implications of text simplification within the framework of
assistive systems. We argue that a distinction should be made between the technologies …

Beyond the chat: Executable and verifiable text-editing with llms

P Laban, J Vig, M Hearst, C **ong, CS Wu - Proceedings of the 37th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Conversational interfaces powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently
become a popular way to obtain feedback during document editing. However, standard chat …

Mirror: A novel approach for the automated evaluation of open-ended question generation

A Deroy, S Maity, S Sarkar - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.12893, 2024 - arxiv.org
Automatic question generation is a critical task that involves evaluating question quality by
considering factors such as engagement, pedagogical value, and the ability to stimulate …

Teaching the pre-trained model to generate simple texts for text simplification

R Sun, W Xu, X Wan - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.12463, 2023 - arxiv.org
Randomly masking text spans in ordinary texts in the pre-training stage hardly allows
models to acquire the ability to generate simple texts. It can hurt the performance of pre …

CEFR-based sentence difficulty annotation and assessment

Y Arase, S Uchida, T Kajiwara - arxiv preprint arxiv:2210.11766, 2022 - arxiv.org
Controllable text simplification is a crucial assistive technique for language learning and
teaching. One of the primary factors hindering its advancement is the lack of a corpus …

DEplain: A German parallel corpus with intralingual translations into plain language for sentence and document simplification

R Stodden, O Momen, L Kallmeyer - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.18939, 2023 - arxiv.org
Text simplification is an intralingual translation task in which documents, or sentences of a
complex source text are simplified for a target audience. The success of automatic text …

TS-ANNO: an annotation tool to build, annotate and evaluate text simplification corpora

R Stodden, L Kallmeyer - Proceedings of the 60th annual meeting …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
We introduce TS-ANNO, an open-source web application for manual creation and for
evaluation of parallel corpora for text simplification. TS-ANNO can be used for i) sentence …