MUSS: Multilingual unsupervised sentence simplification by mining paraphrases

L Martin, A Fan, E De La Clergerie, A Bordes… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Progress in sentence simplification has been hindered by a lack of labeled parallel
simplification data, particularly in languages other than English. We introduce MUSS, a …

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

KC Sheang, H Saggion - … of the 14th International Conference on …, 2021 - repositori.upf.edu
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 …

Controlling text complexity in neural machine translation

S Agrawal, M Carpuat - arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.00835, 2019 - arxiv.org
This work introduces a machine translation task where the output is aimed at audiences of
different levels of target language proficiency. We collect a high quality dataset of news …

Building a monolingual parallel corpus for text simplification using sentence similarity based on alignment between word embeddings

T Kajiwara, M Komachi - Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
Methods for text simplification using the framework of statistical machine translation have
been extensively studied in recent years. However, building the monolingual parallel corpus …

Multilingual unsupervised sentence simplification

L Martin, A Fan, EV de La Clergerie, A Bordes, B Sagot - 2021 - inria.hal.science
Progress in Sentence Simplification has been hindered by the lack of supervised data,
particularly in languages other than English. Previous work has aligned sentences from …

Lexical simplification system to improve web accessibility

R Alarcon, L Moreno, P Martínez - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
People with intellectual, language and learning disabilities face accessibility barriers when
reading texts with complex words. Following accessibility guidelines, complex words can be …

Evaluating transfer learning for simplifying github readmes

H Gao, C Treude, M Zahedi - Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Software documentation captures detailed knowledge about a software product, eg, code,
technologies, and design. It plays an important role in the coordination of development …

SIMSUM: Document-level text simplification via simultaneous summarization

S Blinova, X Zhou, M Jaggi, C Eickhoff… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Document-level text simplification is a specific type of simplification which involves
simplifying documents consisting of several sentences by rewriting them into fewer or more …

Linguistic realisation as machine translation: Comparing different MT models for AMR-to-text generation

TC Ferreira, I Calixto, S Wubben… - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2017 - aclanthology.org
In this paper, we study AMR-to-text generation, framing it as a translation task and
comparing two different MT approaches (Phrase-based and Neural MT). We systematically …