====== Text Simplification ======

===== Overviews =====
See also [[http://nlpprogress.com/english/simplification.html|NLP Progress - Simplification]].
  * [[https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/coli_a_00370|Alva-Manchego et al 2019 - Data-Driven Sentence Simplification: Survey and Benchmark]]

===== Papers =====
  * [[https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/Q16-1029.pdf|Xu et al 2016 - Optimizing statistical machine translation for text simplification]]
  * [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.02677.pdf|Martin et al 2019 - Controllable Sentence Simplification]]

===== Datasets and Evaluation =====
  * [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.04567.pdf|Alva-Manchego et al 2019 - EASSE: Easier automatic sentence simplification evaluation]] Collects a few text simplification datasets in one place
  * [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.07008.pdf|Shardlow et al 2020 - CompLex: A New Corpus for Lexical Complexity Prediction from Likert Scale Data]]
  * Medical domain: [[https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2021.naacl-main.395.pdf|Devaraj et al 2021 - Paragraph-level Simplification of Medical Texts]] Dataset size: 3,500 training, 400 dev, 400 test. Also investigates evaluation metrics.

===== Software and Demos =====
  * [[https://www.tldrpapers.com/]] Rewrites abstracts to a second grade level

===== Related Pages =====
  * [[Controlled Language]]
  * [[Summarization]]