Toborek, V., Busch, M., Boßert, M., Bauckhage, C., & Welke, P. (2023). A New Aligned Simple German Corpus. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp. 11393–11412). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.638
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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Volume:
1
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Date (published):
Jul-2023
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Event name:
61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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Event date:
9-Jul-2023 - 15-Jul-2023
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Event place:
Toronto, Canada
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Number of Pages:
20
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Keywords:
Text simplification; monolingual translation; dataset
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Abstract:
“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.
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Project title:
Structured Data Learning with Generalized Similarities: ICT22-059 (WWTF Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschu und Technologiefonds)
