Controllable lexical simplification for English

KC Sheang, D Ferrés, H Saggion - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.02900, 2023 - arxiv.org
Fine-tuning Transformer-based approaches have recently shown exciting results on
sentence simplification task. However, so far, no research has applied similar approaches to …

On operations in automatic text simplification

R Cardon, A Bibal - Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Text …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
This paper explores the literature of automatic text simplification (ATS) centered on the
notion of operations. Operations are the processed of applying certain modifications to a …

Using GPT-3 as a Text Data Augmentator for a Complex Text Detector

M Romero-Sandoval… - 2023 IEEE 5th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we explore the problem of complex text detection. This problem is a frequent
challenge when implementing text simplification pipelines. Identifying complex text …

Textual form features for text readability assessment

W Pan, X Li, X Chen, R Xu - Natural Language Processing, 2024 - cambridge.org
Text readability assessment aims to automatically evaluate the degree of reading difficulty of
a given text for a specific group of readers. Most of the previous studies considered it as a …

Syntax-guided controllable sentence simplification

L Wang, A Wumaier, T Yibulayin, M Maimaiti - Neurocomputing, 2024 - Elsevier
Sentence simplification is to rephrase a sentence into a form that is easier to read and
understand while preserving its essential meaning and information. Recently, monolingual …

Explain to me like I am five--Sentence Simplification Using Transformers

A Agarwal - arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.04595, 2022 - arxiv.org
Sentence simplification aims at making the structure of text easier to read and understand
while maintaining its original meaning. This can be helpful for people with disabilities, new …

Patent-CR: A Dataset for Patent Claim Revision

L Jiang, PA Scherz, S Goetz - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.02549, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper presents Patent-CR, the first dataset created for the patent claim revision task in
English. It includes both initial patent applications rejected by patent examiners and the final …

A Novel Dataset for Financial Education Text Simplification in Spanish

N Perez-Rojas, S Calderon-Ramirez… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Text simplification, crucial in natural language processing, aims to make texts more
comprehensible, particularly for specific groups like visually impaired Spanish speakers, a …

A dataset for plain language adaptation of biomedical abstracts

K Attal, B Ondov, D Demner-Fushman - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Though exponentially growing health-related literature has been made available to a broad
audience online, the language of scientific articles can be difficult for the general public to …

[PDF][PDF] Uncovering Hidden Consequences of Pre-training Objectives in Sequence-to-Sequence Models

T Kew, R Sennrich - 2023 - zora.uzh.ch
Some variants of self-supervised denoising objectives for pre-training encoder-decoder
language models have been reported to have a negligible impact on downstream …