HHUplexity at Text Complexity DE Challenge 2022

David Arps, Jan Kels, Florian Krämer, Yunus Renz, Regina Stodden, Wiebke Petersen


Abstract
In this paper, we describe our submission to the ‘Text Complexity DE Challenge 2022’ shared task on predicting the complexity of German sentences. We compare performance of different feature-based regression architectures and transformer language models. Our best candidate is a fine-tuned German Distilbert model that ignores linguistic features of the sentences. Our model ranks 7th place in the shared task.
Anthology ID:
2022.germeval-1.5
Volume:
Proceedings of the GermEval 2022 Workshop on Text Complexity Assessment of German Text
Month:
September
Year:
2022
Address:
Potsdam, Germany
Editors:
Sebastian Möller, Salar Mohtaj, Babak Naderi
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GermEval
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
27–32
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.germeval-1.5
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Cite (ACL):
David Arps, Jan Kels, Florian Krämer, Yunus Renz, Regina Stodden, and Wiebke Petersen. 2022. HHUplexity at Text Complexity DE Challenge 2022. In Proceedings of the GermEval 2022 Workshop on Text Complexity Assessment of German Text, pages 27–32, Potsdam, Germany. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
HHUplexity at Text Complexity DE Challenge 2022 (Arps et al., GermEval 2022)
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.germeval-1.5.pdf
Data
TextComplexityDE