Sentence Simplification Capabilities of Transfer-Based Models

According to the official adult literacy report conducted in 24 highly-developed countries, more than 50% adults, on average, can only understand basic vocabulary, short sentences, and syntactic constructions. Everyday information found news articles is thus inaccessible many people, impeding their social inclusion informed decision-making. Systems for automatic sentence simplification aim provide scalable solution this problem. In paper, we propose new state-of-the-art systems English Spanish, specifications expert evaluation that are accordance with well-established easy-to-read guidelines. We conduct of our previous discuss strengths weaknesses each them. Finally, draw conclusions about capabilities give some directions future research.