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title = "An Approach towards Unsupervised Text Simplification on Paragraph-Level for {G}erman Texts",
author = "Fruth, Leon and
Jegan, Robin and
Henrich, Andreas",
editor = "Nunzio, Giorgio Maria Di and
Vezzani, Federica and
Ermakova, Liana and
Azarbonyad, Hosein and
Kamps, Jaap",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on DeTermIt! Evaluating Text Difficulty in a Multilingual Context @ LREC-COLING 2024",
month = may,
year = "2024",
address = "Torino, Italia",
publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.determit-1.8/",
pages = "77--89",
abstract = "Text simplification as a research field has received attention in recent years for English and other languages, however, German text simplification techniques are lacking thus far. We present an unsupervised simplification approach for German texts using reinforcement learning (self-critical sequence training). Our main contributions are the adaption of an existing method for English, the selection and creation of German corpora for this task and the customization of rewards for particular aspects of the German language. In our paper, we describe our system and an evaluation, including still present issues and problems due to the complexity of the German language, as well as directions for future research."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T An Approach towards Unsupervised Text Simplification on Paragraph-Level for German Texts
%A Fruth, Leon
%A Jegan, Robin
%A Henrich, Andreas
%Y Nunzio, Giorgio Maria Di
%Y Vezzani, Federica
%Y Ermakova, Liana
%Y Azarbonyad, Hosein
%Y Kamps, Jaap
%S Proceedings of the Workshop on DeTermIt! Evaluating Text Difficulty in a Multilingual Context @ LREC-COLING 2024
%D 2024
%8 May
%I ELRA and ICCL
%C Torino, Italia
%F fruth-etal-2024-approach
%X Text simplification as a research field has received attention in recent years for English and other languages, however, German text simplification techniques are lacking thus far. We present an unsupervised simplification approach for German texts using reinforcement learning (self-critical sequence training). Our main contributions are the adaption of an existing method for English, the selection and creation of German corpora for this task and the customization of rewards for particular aspects of the German language. In our paper, we describe our system and an evaluation, including still present issues and problems due to the complexity of the German language, as well as directions for future research.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.determit-1.8/
%P 77-89
Markdown (Informal)
[An Approach towards Unsupervised Text Simplification on Paragraph-Level for German Texts](https://aclanthology.org/2024.determit-1.8/) (Fruth et al., DeTermIt 2024)
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