Data-driven sentence simplification: Survey and benchmark

F Alva-Manchego, C Scarton, L Specia - Computational Linguistics, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
Sentence Simplification (SS) aims to modify a sentence in order to make it easier to read
and understand. In order to do so, several rewriting transformations can be performed such …

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 …

Controllable sentence simplification with a unified text-to-text transfer transformer

KC Sheang, H Saggion - … of the 14th International Conference on …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Recently, a large pre-trained language model called T5 (A Unified Text-to-Text Transfer
Transformer) has achieved state-of-the-art performance in many NLP tasks. However, no …

Revisiting non-English text simplification: A unified multilingual benchmark

MJ Ryan, T Naous, W Xu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.15678, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent advancements in high-quality, large-scale English resources have pushed the
frontier of English Automatic Text Simplification (ATS) research. However, less work has …

Document-level text simplification: Dataset, criteria and baseline

R Sun, H **, X Wan - arxiv preprint arxiv:2110.05071, 2021 - arxiv.org
Text simplification is a valuable technique. However, current research is limited to sentence
simplification. In this paper, we define and investigate a new task of document-level text …

Using ChatGPT as a CAT tool in Easy Language translation

S Deilen, SH Garrido, E Lapshinova-Koltunski… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This study sets out to investigate the feasibility of using ChatGPT to translate citizen-oriented
administrative texts into German Easy Language, a simplified, controlled language variety …

Document-level planning for text simplification

L Cripwell, J Legrand, C Gardent - … of the European Chapter of the …, 2023 - hal.science
Most existing work on text simplification is limited to sentence-level inputs, with attempts to
iteratively apply these approaches to document-level simplification failing to coherently …

Flesch-kincaid is not a text simplification evaluation metric

T Tanprasert, D Kauchak - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Sentence-level text simplification is currently evaluated using both automated metrics and
human evaluation. For automatic evaluation, a combination of metrics is usually employed to …