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We examine whether a leading AI system GPT4 understands text as well as humans do, first using a well-established standardized test of discourse comprehension. On this test, GPT4 performs slightly, but not statistically significantly,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Thomas R. Shultz , Jamie M. Wise , Ardavan Salehi Nobandegani

Sentence splitting is a major simplification operator. Here we present a simple and efficient splitting algorithm based on an automatic semantic parser. After splitting, the text is amenable for further fine-tuned simplification operations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Elior Sulem , Omri Abend , Ari Rappoport

Text simplification is essential for making complex content accessible to diverse audiences who face comprehension challenges. Yet, the limited availability of simplified materials creates significant barriers to personal and professional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Michael Färber , Parisa Aghdam , Kyuri Im , Mario Tawfelis , Hardik Ghoshal

Text Simplification is a task that has been minimally explored for low-resource languages. Consequently, there are only a few manually curated datasets. In this paper, we present a human curated sentence-level text simplification dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Surangika Ranathunga , Rumesh Sirithunga , Himashi Rathnayake , Lahiru De Silva , Thamindu Aluthwala , Saman Peramuna , Ravi Shekhar

We present an evaluation of text simplification (TS) in Spanish for a production system, by means of two corpora focused in both complex-sentence and complex-word identification. We compare the most prevalent Spanish-specific readability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Adrian de Wynter , Anthony Hevia , Si-Qing Chen

One useful application of NLP models is to support people in reading complex text from unfamiliar domains (e.g., scientific articles). Simplifying the entire text makes it understandable but sometimes removes important details. On the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Sumit Asthana , Hannah Rashkin , Elizabeth Clark , Fantine Huot , Mirella Lapata

Text to speech (TTS) has made rapid progress in both academia and industry in recent years. Some questions naturally arise that whether a TTS system can achieve human-level quality, how to define/judge that quality and how to achieve it. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Xu Tan , Jiawei Chen , Haohe Liu , Jian Cong , Chen Zhang , Yanqing Liu , Xi Wang , Yichong Leng , Yuanhao Yi , Lei He , Frank Soong , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

In this work, we introduce metrics to evaluate the use of simplified time series in the context of interpretability of a TSC -- a Time Series Classifier. Such simplifications are important because time series data, in contrast to text and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Brigt Håvardstun , Felix Marti-Perez , Cèsar Ferri , Jan Arne Telle

Text classification is one of the most widely studied tasks in natural language processing. Motivated by the principle of compositionality, large multilayer neural network models have been employed for this task in an attempt to effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Devendra Singh Sachan , Manzil Zaheer , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Text simplification seeks to improve readability while retaining the original content and meaning. Our study investigates whether pre-trained classifiers also maintain such coherence by comparing their predictions on both original and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Miriam Anschütz , Edoardo Mosca , Georg Groh

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

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

Text simplification is a common task where the text is adapted to make it easier to understand. Similarly, text elaboration can make a passage more sophisticated, offering a method to control the complexity of reading comprehension tests.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Asma Farajidizaji , Vatsal Raina , Mark Gales

Text-based open-ended questions in academic formative and summative assessments help students become deep learners and prepare them to understand concepts for a subsequent conceptual assessment. However, grading text-based questions,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Rujun Gao , Hillary E. Merzdorf , Saira Anwar , M. Cynthia Hipwell , Arun Srinivasa

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

Recent work on unsupervised question answering has shown that models can be trained with procedurally generated question-answer pairs and can achieve performance competitive with supervised methods. In this work, we consider the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Pratyay Banerjee , Tejas Gokhale , Chitta Baral

Keeping in mind the necessity of intelligent system in educational sector, this paper proposes a text analysis based automated approach for automatic evaluation of the descriptive answers in an examination. In particular, the research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Vedant Bahel , Achamma Thomas

Abstractive text summarization aims to shorten long text documents into a human readable form that contains the most important facts from the original document. However, the level of actual abstraction as measured by novel phrases that do…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Wojciech Kryściński , Romain Paulus , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

Recent studies have used both automatic metrics and human evaluations to assess the simplification abilities of LLMs. However, the suitability of existing evaluation methodologies for LLMs remains in question. First, the suitability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Xuanxin Wu , Yuki Arase

Although text style transfer has witnessed rapid development in recent years, there is as yet no established standard for evaluation, which is performed using several automatic metrics, lacking the possibility of always resorting to human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Huiyuan Lai , Jiali Mao , Antonio Toral , Malvina Nissim