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Sentences that present a complex syntax act as a major stumbling block for downstream Natural Language Processing applications whose predictive quality deteriorates with sentence length and complexity. The task of Text Simplification (TS)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Christina Niklaus , Matthias Cetto , André Freitas , Siegfried Handschuh

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

Text simplification (TS) refers to the process of reducing the complexity of a text while retaining its original meaning and key information. Existing work only shows that large language models (LLMs) have outperformed supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Jipeng Qiang , Minjiang Huang , Yi Zhu , Yunhao Yuan , Chaowei Zhang , Kui Yu

Text simplification (TS) can be viewed as monolingual translation task, translating between text variations within a single language. Recent neural TS models draw on insights from neural machine translation to learn lexical simplification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Jipeng Qiang

For both human readers and pre-trained language models (PrLMs), lexical diversity may lead to confusion and inaccuracy when understanding the underlying semantic meanings of given sentences. By substituting complex words with simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Rongzhou Bao , Jiayi Wang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Sentence embeddings can be decoded to give approximations of the original texts used to create them. We explore this effect in the context of text simplification, demonstrating that reconstructed text embeddings preserve complexity levels.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Matthew Shardlow

Sentence simplification is the task of rewriting texts so they are easier to understand. Recent research has applied sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) models to this task, focusing largely on training-time improvements via reinforcement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Reno Kriz , João Sedoc , Marianna Apidianaki , Carolina Zheng , Gaurav Kumar , Eleni Miltsakaki , Chris Callison-Burch

Text simplification aims at making a text easier to read and understand by simplifying grammar and structure while keeping the underlying information identical. It is often considered an all-purpose generic task where the same…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Louis Martin , Benoît Sagot , Éric de la Clergerie , Antoine Bordes

Sentence simplification aims to make sentences easier to read and understand. Recent approaches have shown promising results with sequence-to-sequence models which have been developed assuming homogeneous target audiences. In this paper we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Jonathan Mallinson , Mirella Lapata

Text simplification is the process of splitting and rephrasing a sentence to a sequence of sentences making it easier to read and understand while preserving the content and approximating the original meaning. Text simplification has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Tanvi Dadu , Kartikey Pant , Seema Nagar , Ferdous Ahmed Barbhuiya , Kuntal Dey

Text simplification is the task of rewriting a text so that it is readable and easily understood. In this paper, we propose a simple yet novel unsupervised sentence simplification system that harnesses parsing structures together with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Vy Vo , Weiqing Wang , Wray Buntine

In this paper, we present the SimDoc system, a simplification model considering simplicity, readability, and discourse aspects, such as coherence. In the past decade, the progress of the Text Simplification (TS) field has been mostly shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Laura Vásquez-Rodríguez , Nhung T. H. Nguyen , Piotr Przybyła , Matthew Shardlow , Sophia Ananiadou

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

Text simplification (TS) aims to reduce the lexical and structural complexity of a text, while still retaining the semantic meaning. Current automatic TS techniques are limited to either lexical-level applications or manually defining a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Tong Wang , Ping Chen , Kevin Amaral , Jipeng Qiang

We present a context-preserving text simplification (TS) approach that recursively splits and rephrases complex English sentences into a semantic hierarchy of simplified sentences. Using a set of linguistically principled transformation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Christina Niklaus , Matthias Cetto , André Freitas , Siegfried Handschuh

Sentence simplification aims to simplify the content and structure of complex sentences, and thus make them easier to interpret for human readers, and easier to process for downstream NLP applications. Recent advances in neural machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Tu Vu , Baotian Hu , Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Hong Yu

Sentence Simplification aims to rephrase complex sentences into simpler sentences while retaining original meaning. Large Language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the ability to perform a variety of natural language processing tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yutao Feng , Jipeng Qiang , Yun Li , Yunhao Yuan , Yi Zhu

Text simplification is crucial for improving accessibility and comprehension for English as a Second Language (ESL) learners. This study goes a step further and aims to facilitate ESL learners' language acquisition by simplification.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Guanlin Li , Yuki Arase , Noel Crespi

State-of-the-art text simplification (TS) systems adopt end-to-end neural network models to directly generate the simplified version of the input text, and usually function as a blackbox. Moreover, TS is usually treated as an all-purpose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yu Qiao , Xiaofei Li , Daniel Wiechmann , Elma Kerz

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 language learners, or those with low literacy.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Aman Agarwal
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