[PDF][PDF] Automatic text simplification for social good: Progress and challenges

S Štajner - Findings of the Association for Computational …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Since the late 1990s, automatic text simplification (ATS) was promoted as a natural
language processing (NLP) task with great potential to make texts more accessible to …

Controllable text simplification with explicit paraphrasing

M Maddela, F Alva-Manchego, W Xu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2010.11004, 2020 - arxiv.org
Text Simplification improves the readability of sentences through several rewriting
transformations, such as lexical paraphrasing, deletion, and splitting. Current simplification …

[BUCH][B] Automatic text simplification

H Saggion, G Hirst - 2017 - Springer
Automatic text simplification is a research field in computational linguistics that studies
methods and techniques to simplify textual content. Text simplification methods should …

Lsbert: Lexical simplification based on bert

J Qiang, Y Li, Y Zhu, Y Yuan, Y Shi… - IEEE/ACM transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lexical simplification (LS) aims at replacing complex words with simpler alternatives. LS
commonly consists of three main steps: complex word identification, substitute generation …

Unsupervised lexical simplification for non-native speakers

G Paetzold, L Specia - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2016 - ojs.aaai.org
Lexical Simplification is the task of replacing complex words with simpler alternatives. We
propose a novel, unsupervised approach for the task. It relies on two resources: a corpus of …

Lexical simplification benchmarks for English, Portuguese, and Spanish

S Štajner, D Ferrés, M Shardlow, K North… - Frontiers in Artificial …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Even in highly-developed countries, as many as 15–30% of the population can only
understand texts written using a basic vocabulary. Their understanding of everyday texts is …

Lexical simplification with pretrained encoders

J Qiang, Y Li, Y Zhu, Y Yuan, X Wu - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2020 - aaai.org
Lexical simplification (LS) aims to replace complex words in a given sentence with their
simpler alternatives of equivalent meaning. Recently unsupervised lexical simplification …

A survey on lexical simplification

GH Paetzold, L Specia - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2017 - jair.org
Lexical Simplification is the process of replacing complex words in a given sentence with
simpler alternatives of equivalent meaning. This task has wide applicability both as an …

A word-complexity lexicon and a neural readability ranking model for lexical simplification

M Maddela, W Xu - arxiv preprint arxiv:1810.05754, 2018 - arxiv.org
Current lexical simplification approaches rely heavily on heuristics and corpus level features
that do not always align with human judgment. We create a human-rated word-complexity …

[PDF][PDF] Simple PPDB: A paraphrase database for simplification

E Pavlick, C Callison-Burch - … of the 54th Annual Meeting of the …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
Abstract We release the Simple Paraphrase Database, a subset of of the Paraphrase
Database (PPDB) adapted for the task of text simplification. We train a supervised model to …