Problems in Current Text Simplification Research: New Data Can Help

Wei Xu, Chris Callison-Burch, Courtney Napoles


Abstract
Simple Wikipedia has dominated simplification research in the past 5 years. In this opinion paper, we argue that focusing on Wikipedia limits simplification research. We back up our arguments with corpus analysis and by highlighting statements that other researchers have made in the simplification literature. We introduce a new simplification dataset that is a significant improvement over Simple Wikipedia, and present a novel quantitative-comparative approach to study the quality of simplification data resources.
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Q15-1021
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Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 3
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2015
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Cambridge, MA
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Michael Collins, Lillian Lee
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TACL
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MIT Press
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283–297
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https://aclanthology.org/Q15-1021
DOI:
10.1162/tacl_a_00139
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Wei Xu, Chris Callison-Burch, and Courtney Napoles. 2015. Problems in Current Text Simplification Research: New Data Can Help. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 3:283–297.
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Problems in Current Text Simplification Research: New Data Can Help (Xu et al., TACL 2015)
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