CLEF 2023 SimpleText Track

The general public tends to avoid reliable sources such as scientific literature due their complex language and lacking background knowledge. Instead, they rely on shallow derived the web in social media – often published for commercial or political incentives, rather than informational value. Can text simplification help remove some of these access barriers? This paper presents CLEF 2023 SimpleText track tackling technical evaluation challenges information a audience. We provide appropriate reusable data benchmarks simplification, promote novel research reduce barriers understanding texts. Our overall use-case is create simplified summary multiple documents based popular science query which provides user with an accessible overview this specific topic. has following three concrete tasks. Task 1 (What in, out?): Selecting passages include summary. 2 unclear?): Difficult concept identification explanation. 3 (Rewrite this!): Text - rewriting text. tasks together form pipeline system.