Papers by Markus Wenzel
Evaluating Readability Metrics for German Medical Text Simplification (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Clinical reports and scientific information sources are written for medical experts, preventing patients from understanding the main messages of these texts. |
| Approach: | They evaluated the suitability of 18 statistical, part-of-speech-based, syntactic, semantic and fluency metrics to measure readability of German medical texts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed measures are compared with standard methods on English medical texts and simplified summaries. |