Language models for German text simplification: Overcoming parallel data scarcity through style-specific pre-training

M Anschütz, J Oehms, T Wimmer, B Jezierski… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Automatic text simplification systems help to reduce textual information barriers on the
internet. However, for languages other than English, only few parallel data to train these …

DEplain: A German parallel corpus with intralingual translations into plain language for sentence and document simplification

R Stodden, O Momen, L Kallmeyer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.18939, 2023 - arxiv.org
Text simplification is an intralingual translation task in which documents, or sentences of a
complex source text are simplified for a target audience. The success of automatic 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 …

Linguistic corpus annotation for automatic text simplification evaluation

R Cardon, A Bibal, R Wilkens, D Alfter… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Evaluating automatic text simplification (ATS) systems is a difficult task that is either
performed by automatic metrics or user-based evaluations. However, from a linguistic point …

Automatic text simplification for German

S Ebling, A Battisti, M Kostrzewa, D Pfütze… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The article at hand aggregates the work of our group in automatic processing of simplified
German. We present four parallel (standard/simplified German) corpora compiled and …

Analysing Zero-Shot Readability-Controlled Sentence Simplification

A Barayan, J Camacho-Collados… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Readability-controlled text simplification (RCTS) rewrites texts to lower readability levels
while preserving their meaning. RCTS models often depend on parallel corpora with …

EASSE-DE: Easier Automatic Sentence Simplification Evaluation for German

R Stodden - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.03563, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this work, we propose EASSE-multi, a framework for easier automatic sentence evaluation
for languages other than English. Compared to the original EASSE framework, EASSE-multi …

Data and Approaches for German Text simplification--towards an Accessibility-enhanced Communication

T Schomacker, M Gille, J von der Hülls… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper examines the current state-of-the-art of German text simplification, focusing on
parallel and monolingual German corpora. It reviews neural language models for simplifying …

Target-level sentence simplification as controlled paraphrasing

T Kew, S Ebling - Proceedings of the Workshop on Text …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Automatic text simplification aims to reduce the linguistic complexity of a text in order to
make it easier to understand and more accessible. However, simplified texts are consumed …

Der Einsatz von Neural Language Models für eine barrierefreie Verwaltungskommunikation: Anforderungen an die automatisierte Vereinfachung rechtlicher …

M Gille, T Schomacker, J von der Hülls… - 6. Fachtagung Rechts …, 2023 - dl.gi.de
Machine-learning-based text simplification can be used to meet legal obligations to provide
comprehensibility-enhanced public service texts. The article examines the use of artificial …