[PDF][PDF] Do text simplification systems preserve meaning? A human evaluation via reading comprehension

S Agrawal, M Carpuat - Transactions of the Association for …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Automatic text simplification (TS) aims to automate the process of rewriting text to make it
easier for people to read. A pre-requisite for TS to be useful is that it should convey …

Enhancing performance of transformer-based models in natural language understanding through word importance embedding

SK Hong, JS Jang, HY Kwon - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
Transformer-based models have achieved state-of-the-art performance on natural language
understanding (NLU) tasks by learning important token relationships through the attention …

Can Knowledge Graphs Simplify Text?

A Colas, H Ma, X He, Y Bai, DZ Wang - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Knowledge Graph (KG)-to-Text Generation has seen recent improvements in generating
fluent and informative sentences which describe a given KG. As KGs are widespread across …

A new aligned simple German corpus

V Toborek, M Busch, M Boßert, C Bauckhage… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
" Leichte Sprache", the German counterpart to Simple English, is a regulated language
aiming to facilitate complex written language that would otherwise stay inaccessible to …

MCTS: a multi-reference Chinese text simplification dataset

R Chong, L Lu, L Yang, J Nie, Z Liu, S Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Text simplification aims to make the text easier to understand by applying rewriting
transformations. There has been very little research on Chinese text simplification for a long …

Mitigating data scarcity for large language models

H Van - arxiv preprint arxiv:2302.01806, 2023 - arxiv.org
In recent years, pretrained neural language models (PNLMs) have taken the field of natural
language processing by storm, achieving new benchmarks and state-of-the-art …

Syntactic complexity identification, measurement, and reduction through controlled syntactic simplification

M Salman, A Haller, SJR Méndez - arxiv preprint arxiv:2304.07774, 2023 - arxiv.org
Text simplification is one of the domains in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that offers
an opportunity to understand the text in a simplified manner for exploration. However, it is …

Can summarization approximate simplification? A gold standard comparison

G Magnifico, E Barbu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.16181, 2025 - arxiv.org
This study explores the overlap between text summarization and simplification outputs.
While summarization evaluation methods are streamlined, simplification lacks cohesion …

Chinese Text Simplification Based on Large Language Models

H Huo, Z Fu, H Yu, S Yang… - … Linguistics and Natural …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Chinese is a complex language, creating a demand for text simplification in various contexts.
Traditional text simplification models have primarily relied on pre-trained models. With the …

Simpler becomes Harder: Do LLMs Exhibit a Coherent Behavior on Simplified Corpora?

M Anschütz, E Mosca, G Groh - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.06838, 2024 - arxiv.org
Text simplification seeks to improve readability while retaining the original content and
meaning. Our study investigates whether pre-trained classifiers also maintain such …