A New Aligned Simple German Corpus

Vanessa Toborek, Moritz Busch, Malte Boßert, Christian Bauckhage, Pascal Welke


Abstract
“Leichte Sprache”, the German counterpart to Simple English, is a regulated language aiming to facilitate complex written language that would otherwise stay inaccessible to different groups of people. We present a new sentence-aligned monolingual corpus for Simple German – German. It contains multiple document-aligned sources which we have aligned using automatic sentence-alignment methods. We evaluate our alignments based on a manually labelled subset of aligned documents. The quality of our sentence alignments, as measured by the F1-score, surpasses previous work. We publish the dataset under CC BY-SA and the accompanying code under MIT license.
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2023.acl-long.638
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Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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11393–11412
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.638
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.638
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Vanessa Toborek, Moritz Busch, Malte Boßert, Christian Bauckhage, and Pascal Welke. 2023. A New Aligned Simple German Corpus. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 11393–11412, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A New Aligned Simple German Corpus (Toborek et al., ACL 2023)
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