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To adapt text summarization to the multilingual world, previous work proposes multi-lingual summarization (MLS) and cross-lingual summarization (CLS). However, these two tasks have been studied separately due to the different definitions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jiaan Wang , Fandong Meng , Duo Zheng , Yunlong Liang , Zhixu Li , Jianfeng Qu , Jie Zhou

The goal of text simplification (TS) is to transform difficult text into a version that is easier to understand and more broadly accessible to a wide variety of readers. In some domains, such as healthcare, fully automated approaches cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Hoang Van , David Kauchak , Gondy Leroy

Cross-Lingual Text Simplification (CLTS) aims to make content more accessible across languages by simultaneously addressing both linguistic complexity and translation. This study investigates the effectiveness of different prompting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ido Dahan , Omer Toledano , Roey J. Gafter , Sharon Pardo , Oren Tsur , Hila Zahavi , Elior Sulem

The processing of legal texts has been developing as an emerging field in natural language processing (NLP). Legal texts contain unique jargon and complex linguistic attributes in vocabulary, semantics, syntax, and morphology. Therefore,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Mert Cemri , Tolga Çukur , Aykut Koç

Cross-lingual Summarization (CLS) aims at producing a summary in the target language for an article in the source language. Traditional solutions employ a two-step approach, i.e. translate then summarize or summarize then translate.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ruochen Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Yu Shi , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang

Cross-lingual summarization (CLS) aims to generate a summary for the source text in a different target language. Currently, instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) excel at various English tasks. However, unlike languages such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Zhecheng Li , Yiwei Wang , Bryan Hooi , Yujun Cai , Naifan Cheung , Nanyun Peng , Kai-wei Chang

Given a document in a source language, cross-lingual summarization (CLS) aims at generating a concise summary in a different target language. Unlike monolingual summarization (MS), naturally occurring source-language documents paired with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jiaan Wang , Fandong Meng , Yunlong Liang , Tingyi Zhang , Jiarong Xu , Zhixu Li , Jie Zhou

The general goal of text simplification (TS) is to reduce text complexity for human consumption. This paper investigates another potential use of neural TS: assisting machines performing natural language processing (NLP) tasks. We evaluate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Hoang Van , Zheng Tang , Mihai Surdeanu

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) is the task of converting a text into a form that is easier to read while maintaining the meaning of the original text. A sub-task of TS is Cognitive Simplification (CS), converting text to a form that is readily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Eytan Chamovitz , Omri Abend

We propose a new unsupervised lexical simplification method that uses only monolingual data and pre-trained language models. Given a target word and its context, our method generates substitutes based on the target context and also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Takashi Wada , Timothy Baldwin , Jey Han Lau

Pre-trained models are widely used in the tasks of natural language processing nowadays. However, in the specific field of text simplification, the research on improving pre-trained models is still blank. In this work, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Renliang Sun , Xiaojun Wan

Text simplification (TS) is the process of generating easy-to-understand sentences from a given sentence or piece of text. The aim of TS is to reduce both the lexical (which refers to vocabulary complexity and meaning) and syntactic (which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Andrei-Ionut Stan , Elena-Simona Apostol

Cross-lingual science journalism generates popular science stories of scientific articles different from the source language for a non-expert audience. Hence, a cross-lingual popular summary must contain the salient content of the input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Mehwish Fatima , Tim Kolber , Katja Markert , Michael Strube

Realignment is a promising strategy to improve cross-lingual transfer in multilingual language models. However, empirical results are mixed and often unreliable, particularly for typologically distant or low-resource languages (LRLs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Quang Phuoc Nguyen , David Anugraha , Felix Gaschi , Jun Bin Cheng , En-Shiun Annie Lee

Nowadays, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been gradually employed to solve complex tasks. To face the challenge, task decomposition has become an effective way, which proposes to divide a complex task into multiple simpler subtasks and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yiliu Sun , Yanfang Zhang , Zicheng Zhao , Sheng Wan , Dacheng Tao , Chen Gong

Cross-Lingual Summarization (CLS) is a task that extracts important information from a source document and summarizes it into a summary in another language. It is a challenging task that requires a system to understand, summarize, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yu Bai , Heyan Huang , Kai Fan , Yang Gao , Yiming Zhu , Jiaao Zhan , Zewen Chi , Boxing Chen

Sentence simplification aims to modify a sentence to make it easier to read and understand while preserving the meaning. Different applications require distinct simplification policies, such as replacing only complex words at the lexical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xuanxin Wu , Yuki Arase , Masaaki Nagata

Multi-task learning (MTL) has recently contributed to learning better representations in service of various NLP tasks. MTL aims at improving the performance of a primary task, by jointly training on a secondary task. This paper introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Davis Liang , Yan Shu

Text simplification aims to make the text easier to understand by applying rewriting transformations. There has been very little research on Chinese text simplification for a long time. The lack of generic evaluation data is an essential…

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