Text simplification, defined narrowly, is the process of reducing the linguistic complexity of a
text, while still retaining the original information and meaning. More broadly, text …

We report the findings of the second Complex Word Identification (CWI) shared task
organized as part of the BEA workshop co-located with NAACL-HLT'2018. The second CWI …

Automatic text simplification is a research field in computational linguistics that studies
methods and techniques to simplify textual content. Text simplification methods should …

The paper presents a first attempt towards unsupervised neural text simplification that relies
only on unlabeled text corpora. The core framework is composed of a shared encoder and a …

The way in which a text is written can be a barrier for many people. Automatic text
simplification is a natural language processing technology that, when mature, could be used …

This article explores the use of text simplification as a pre-processing step for statistical
machine translation of grammatically complex under-resourced languages. Our experiments …

Reading comprehension and fluency are crucial for successful academic learning and
achievement. Yet, a rather large percentage of children still have enormous difficulties in …

Automatic text simplification is an active research area, and there are first systems for
English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. For German, no data-driven approach exists to …

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 …

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 …