/GermanElabSimplification

Repository to accompany the SIGDIAL 2024 paper: Elaborative Simplification for German-language Texts

German Elaborative Simplification

Repository to accompany the SIGDIAL 2024 paper: Elaborative Simplification for German-Language Texts

Alignment annotations

We have uploaded the alignment annotations directly to the APA-RST repository, to the alignments_with_transformations/ folder.

Categories of elaborative simplification

More information on the categories can be found in the SIGDIAL paper.

  • For APA-RST: the file apa-rst_categories.csv has a column for the filename, the labelled sentence, the category, and the full text
  • For DEplain: coming soon

Models

Scripts for inference / training: coming soon

More information and citation

More information on the files can be found in our paper. If you use any of the data please cite this paper:

Freya Hewett, Hadi Asghari, and Manfred Stede. 2024. Elaborative Simplification for German-Language Texts. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 29–39, Kyoto, Japan. Association for Computational Linguistics.