Automatic Text Simplification for German

Building a German/Simple German Parallel Corpus for Automatic Text Simplification

In this paper we report our experiments in creating a parallel corpus using German/Simple German documents from the web. We require parallel data to build a statistical machine translation (SMT) system that translates from German into Simple German. Parallel data for SMT systems needs to be aligned at the sentence level. We applied an existing monolingual sentence alignment algorithm. We show t...

Automatic induction of rules for text simplification

Long and complicated sentences pose various problems to many state-of-the-art natural language technologies. We have been exploring methods to automatically transform such sentences as to make them simpler. These methods involve the use of a rule-based system, driven by the syntax of the text in the domain of interest. Hand-crafting rules for every domain is time-consuming and impractical. This...

Automatic Text Simplification via Synonym Replacement

In this study automatic lexical simplification via synonym replacement in Swedish was investigated using three different strategies for choosing alternative synonyms: based on word frequency, based on word length, and based on level of synonymy. These strategies were evaluated in terms of standardized readability metrics for Swedish, average word length, proportion of long words, and in relatio...

Automatic Text Simplification via Synonym Replacement

Automatic lexical simplification via synonym replacement in Swedish was investigated. Three different methods for choosing alternative synonyms were evaluated: (1) based on word frequency, (2) based on word length, and (3) based on level of synonymy. These three strategies were evaluated in terms of standardized readability metrics for Swedish, average word length, and proportion of long words,...

Automatic Text Simplification for People with Intellectual Disabilities