Simple TICO-19: A Dataset for Joint Translation and Simplification of COVID-19 Texts (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Specialist high-quality information is typically first available in English, and it is written in a language that may be difficult to understand by most readers. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a new language resource to simplify COVID-19 texts . they propose to employ four annotators who simplified over 6,000 sentences . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset improves readability from the original texts to their simplified versions. |
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