Know-AI at TSAR 2025 Shared Task Difficulty-aware Text Simplification System

Yiheng Wu; Anisia Katinskaia; Jue Hou; Roman Yangarber

Know-AI at TSAR 2025 Shared Task Difficulty-aware Text Simplification System

Yiheng Wu, Anisia Katinskaia, Jue Hou, Roman Yangarber

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Text simplification is an active research topic with applications in multiple domains. In a simplification pipeline, assessment of text difficulty plays a crucial role as a quality control mechanism it acts as a critic and guides models to generate text at the difficulty level required by the user. This paper presents our Difficulty-aware Text Simplification System. We evaluate our pipeline using the TSAR shared task dataset and discuss challenges in constructing corpora for training models to assess text difficulty.

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Volume:: Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2025)
Month:: November
Year:: 2025
Address:: Suzhou, China
Editors:: Matthew Shardlow, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Kai North, Regina Stodden, Horacio Saggion, Nouran Khallaf, Akio Hayakawa
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%A Katinskaia, Anisia
%A Hou, Jue
%A Yangarber, Roman
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%Y Alva-Manchego, Fernando
%Y North, Kai
%Y Stodden, Regina
%Y Saggion, Horacio
%Y Khallaf, Nouran
%Y Hayakawa, Akio
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[Know-AI at TSAR 2025 Shared Task Difficulty-aware Text Simplification System](https://aclanthology.org/2025.tsar-1.24/) (Wu et al., TSAR 2025)

Know-AI at TSAR 2025 Shared Task Difficulty-aware Text Simplification System (Wu et al., TSAR 2025)

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Yiheng Wu, Anisia Katinskaia, Jue Hou, and Roman Yangarber. 2025. Know-AI at TSAR 2025 Shared Task Difficulty-aware Text Simplification System. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2025), pages 266–272, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.