A Corpus for Automatic Readability Assessment and Text Simplification of German (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Using monolingual-only data, we can automate readability assessment and text simplification of simplified language. |
| Approach: | They present a corpus for automatic readability assessment and automatic text simplification for German using parallel and monolingual data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus is compiled from web sources and contains information on text structure, typography, font style, and images. |
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