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Social media networks and chatting platforms often use an informal version of natural text. Adversarial spelling attacks also tend to alter the input text by modifying the characters in the text. Normalizing these texts is an essential step…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Fenil Doshi , Jimit Gandhi , Deep Gosalia , Sudhir Bagul

Corpora and web texts can become a rich language learning resource if we have a means of assessing whether they are linguistically appropriate for learners at a given proficiency level. In this paper, we aim at addressing this issue by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Ildikó Pilán , Sowmya Vajjala , Elena Volodina

In this paper we present a simple re-ranking method for Automatic Sentence Simplification based on the noisy channel scheme. Instead of directly computing the best simplification given a complex text, the re-ranking method also considers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Oscar M Cumbicus-Pineda , Iker Gutiérrez-Fandiño , Itziar Gonzalez-Dios , Aitor Soroa

In recent times training Language Models (LMs) have relied on computationally heavy training over massive datasets which makes this training process extremely laborious. In this paper we propose a novel method for numerically evaluating…

One of the major problems with text simplification is the lack of high-quality data. The sources of simplification datasets are limited to Wikipedia and Newsela, restricting further development of this field. In this paper, we analyzed the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Renliang Sun , Zhixian Yang , Xiaojun Wan

Training learnable metrics using modern language models has recently emerged as a promising method for the automatic evaluation of machine translation. However, existing human evaluation datasets for text simplification have limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Mounica Maddela , Yao Dou , David Heineman , Wei Xu

Natural Language Processing enables computers to understand human language by analysing and classifying text efficiently with deep-level grammatical and semantic features. Existing models capture features by learning from large corpora with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Azrin Sultana , Firoz Ahmed

For readability assessment, traditional methods mainly employ machine learning classifiers with hundreds of linguistic features. Although the deep learning model has become the prominent approach for almost all NLP tasks, it is less…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Wenbiao Li , Ziyang Wang , Yunfang Wu

Evaluating the readability of a text can significantly facilitate the precise expression of information in written form. The formulation of text readability assessment involves the identification of meaningful properties of the text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hamid Mohammadi , Seyed Hossein Khasteh , Tahereh Firoozi , Taha Samavati

Text summarization is crucial for mitigating information overload across domains like journalism, medicine, and business. This research evaluates summarization performance across 17 large language models (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Anantharaman Janakiraman , Behnaz Ghoraani

The fast-growing amount of information on the Internet makes the research in automatic document summarization very urgent. It is an effective solution for information overload. Many approaches have been proposed based on different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Kamal Al-Sabahi , Zuping Zhang , Jun Long , Khaled Alwesabi

This paper presents a data-driven study focusing on analyzing and predicting sentence deletion -- a prevalent but understudied phenomenon in document simplification -- on a large English text simplification corpus. We inspect various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Yang Zhong , Chao Jiang , Wei Xu , Junyi Jessy Li

We investigate automatic interlinear glossing in low-resource settings. We augment a hard-attentional neural model with embedded translation information extracted from interlinear glossed text. After encoding these translations using large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Changbing Yang , Garrett Nicolai , Miikka Silfverberg

Text Simplification (TS) aims to reduce the linguistic complexity of content to make it easier to understand. Research in TS has been of keen interest, especially as approaches to TS have shifted from manual, hand-crafted rules to automated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Punardeep Sikka , Vijay Mago

Sentiment understanding has been a long-term goal of AI in the past decades. This paper deals with sentence-level sentiment classification. Though a variety of neural network models have been proposed very recently, however, previous models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Qiao Qian , Minlie Huang , Jinhao Lei , Xiaoyan Zhu

Automatic simplification can help laypeople to comprehend complex scientific text. Language models are frequently applied to this task by translating from complex to simple language. In this paper, we describe our system based on Llama 2,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Valentin Knappich , Simon Razniewski , Annemarie Friedrich

Current evaluation of German automatic text simplification (ATS) relies on general-purpose metrics such as SARI, BLEU, and BERTScore, which insufficiently capture simplification quality in terms of simplicity, meaning preservation, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Maria Korobeynikova , Alessia Battisti , Lukas Fischer , Yingqiang Gao

Estimating the quality of machine translation systems has been an ongoing challenge for researchers in this field. Many previous attempts at using round-trip translation as a measure of quality have failed, and there is much disagreement as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Nathan Crone , Adam Power , John Weldon

Automatic Text Summarization (ATS), utilizing Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms, aims to create concise and accurate summaries, thereby significantly reducing the human effort required in processing large volumes of text. ATS has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Yang Zhang , Hanlei Jin , Dan Meng , Jun Wang , Jinghua Tan

Text Simplification improves the readability of sentences through several rewriting transformations, such as lexical paraphrasing, deletion, and splitting. Current simplification systems are predominantly sequence-to-sequence models that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Mounica Maddela , Fernando Alva-Manchego , Wei Xu