Text Simplification
CATS: A Tool for Customized Alignment of Text Simplification Corpora
... Automated text simplification (ATS) has the goal of au- tomatically transforming sentence structure and lexical choices in a way that it provides better understanding and wider accessibility to large ...
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A Hybrid System for Spanish Text Simplification
... four text simplification operations: deletion, rewording (lexical simplification), reordering and ...insertions. Text simplification is explicitly treated in a simi- lar way to sentence ...
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Exploring Neural Text Simplification Models
... Furthermore, we are interested to explore whether large scale pre-trained embeddings can improve text simplification models. Kauchak (2013) indi- cates that combining normal data with simplified data can ...
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Semantic Structural Evaluation for Text Simplification
... evaluating text simplifi- cation systems focus on evaluating lexical text aspects, neglecting its structural ...of text simplification, called ...assess simplification qual- ity by ...
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Evaluating the Readability of Text Simplification Output for Readers with Cognitive Disabilities
... of text simplification output in the context of cognitive disabilities ...of text simplification out- put, as previous research ( ˇStajner et ...
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Text Simplification Based On Lexical Analysis
... performs text simplification using synchronous dependency ...lexical simplification rules can be generalised to enable their application in new contexts without introducing errors, and an evaluation ...
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Simple English Wikipedia: A New Text Simplification Task
... for text simplification and the related task of text ...phrase simplification rules based on edits identified in the revision histories of both Simple English Wikipedia and English ...
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Automatic Text Simplification for Spanish: Comparative Evaluation of Various Simplification Strategies
... automatic text simplification (ATS) is to transform lexically and syntactically com- plex texts or sentences into their simpler vari- ants which can be more easily understood by non- native speakers, ...
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Similarity Based Alignment of Monolingual Corpora for Text Simplification Purposes
... for text rewriting algorithms, a subtask of automatic text ...easy-to-read text segments to text segments from a reference ...of text reuse detection, measuring sentence similarity by a ...
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Analyzing Text Complexity and Text Simplification: Connecting Linguistics, Processing and Educational Applications
... The first step towards ATS is to have an understanding about the characteristics of a simple text. This will also contribute towards the development of criterial features for performing text ...
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One Step Closer to Automatic Evaluation of Text Simplification Systems
... for Text Simplification (TS) systems which would convert such sentences into their simpler and easier-to-read variants, while at the same time preserving the original ...
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Controllable Text Simplification with Lexical Constraint Loss
... Text simplification (Shardlow, 2014) is the task of rewriting a complex text into a simpler form while preserving its ...a text simplification system that translates an input sentence ...
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Metaphors in Text Simplification: To change or not to change, that is the question
... We present an analysis of metaphors in news text simplification. Using features that cap- ture general and metaphor specific character- istics, we test whether we can automatically identify which metaphors ...
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Improving Text Simplification Language Modeling Using Unsimplified Text Data
... domains, text simplification rep- resents an ideal problem area for ...simplified text data is available in reasonable ...ple text data available is still ...recent text ...
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Text Simplification from Professionally Produced Corpora
... The lack of large and reliable datasets has been hindering progress in Text Simplification (TS). We investigate the application of the recently created Newsela corpus, the largest collection of ...
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Optimizing Statistical Machine Translation for Text Simplification
... for text simplification — most pre- vious work has used off-the-shelf statistical machine translation (SMT) technology and achieved reason- able results (Coster and Kauchak, 2011a,b; Wubben et ...
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Can Text Simplification Help Machine Translation?
... automatic text simplification systems (ATS) can improve English-to-Serbian machine translation (MT) if used as a pre-processing step to simplify source sentences before translating them with the SMT ...
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READ–IT: Assessing Readability of Italian Texts with a View to Text Simplification
... based readability assessment studies (Schwarm and Ostendorf, 2005; Heilman et al., 2007; Nenkova, 2010); the latter two are reminiscent of the ‘head noun modifiers’ feature used by Nenkova (2010). Verbal predicates ...
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Easy-read Documents as a Gold Standard for Evaluation of Text Simplification Output
... The results of the presented studies showed that easy-read documents, which were randomly ac- cessed from various domains on the Web, such as charity organisations and government or healthcare websites, comply with the ...
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Data Driven Text Simplification
... Automatic text simplification (ATS) appeared as an area of research in natural language processing (NLP) in the late nineties (Chandrasekar et ...given text snippet would be the one that can be read ...
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