Explainable Prediction of Text Complexity: The Missing Preliminaries for Text Simplification (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Text simplification reduces the language complexity of professional content for accessibility purposes. |
| Approach: | They propose that text simplification can be decomposed into a pipeline of tasks . they show that the pipeline can be used to predict whether a text needs to be simplified . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves the performance of out-of-sample simplification tests on a blackbox lexical model . the proposed model reduces the complexity of professional text by a large margin . |
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