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%T Align and Shine: Building High-quality Sentence-aligned Corpora for Multilingual Text Simplification
%A Hilasaca Sanchez, Luis Kenji
%A Khallaf, Nouran
%A Sharoff, Serge
%Y Rapp, Reinhard
%Y Terryn, Ayla Rigouts
%Y Sharoff, Serge
%Y Zweigenbaum, Pierre
%S Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC)
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Palma de Mallorca, Spain
%F hilasaca-sanchez-etal-2026-align
%X Text simplification plays a crucial role in improving the accessibility and comprehensibility of written information for diverse audiences, including language learners and readers with limited literacy. Despite its importance, large-scale, high-quality datasets for training and evaluating text simplification models remain scarce for languages other than English. This paper reports an experimental study on the collection and processing of crowd-sourced simplification data to construct a corpus suitable for both training and testing text simplification systems across multiple languages (Catalan, English, French, Italian and Spanish). We report mechanisms for sentence-level alignment from document-level data. The resulting dataset of the aligned sentence pairs is publicly available.
%R 10.63317/55pt8xqgkge6
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.bucc-1.8/
%U https://doi.org/10.63317/55pt8xqgkge6
%P 62-71

Markdown (Informal)

[Align and Shine: Building High-quality Sentence-aligned Corpora for Multilingual Text Simplification](https://aclanthology.org/2026.bucc-1.8/) (Hilasaca Sanchez et al., BUCC 2026)

• Align and Shine: Building High-quality Sentence-aligned Corpora for Multilingual Text Simplification (Hilasaca Sanchez et al., BUCC 2026)

ACL

• Luis Kenji Hilasaca Sanchez, Nouran Khallaf, and Serge Sharoff. 2026. Align and Shine: Building High-quality Sentence-aligned Corpora for Multilingual Text Simplification. In Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC), pages 62–71, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).