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A New Aligned Simple German Corpus

Computation and Language 2023-05-29 v4

Abstract

"Leichte Sprache", the German counterpart to Simple English, is a regulated language aiming to facilitate complex written language that would otherwise stay inaccessible to different groups of people. We present a new sentence-aligned monolingual corpus for Simple German -- German. It contains multiple document-aligned sources which we have aligned using automatic sentence-alignment methods. We evaluate our alignments based on a manually labelled subset of aligned documents. The quality of our sentence alignments, as measured by F1-score, surpasses previous work. We publish the dataset under CC BY-SA and the accompanying code under MIT license.

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@article{arxiv.2209.01106,
  title  = {A New Aligned Simple German Corpus},
  author = {Vanessa Toborek and Moritz Busch and Malte Boßert and Christian Bauckhage and Pascal Welke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.01106},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Accepted at ACL 2023

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