Vanessa Toborek


2025

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Beyond Shallow Heuristics: Leveraging Human Intuition for Curriculum Learning
Vanessa Toborek | Sebastian Müller | Tim Selbach | Tamás Horváth | Christian Bauckhage
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2025)

2023

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A New Aligned Simple German Corpus
Vanessa Toborek | Moritz Busch | Malte Boßert | Christian Bauckhage | Pascal Welke
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

“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.