{"url":"/dataset/deplain-web-sent","name":"DEplain-web-sent","full_name":null,"description_markdown":"### DEplain-web-sent: A German Parallel Corpus for Sentence Simplification on Web Texts\r\n\r\nDEplain is a new dataset of parallel, professionally written and manually aligned simplifications in **plain German** “plain DE” (or in German: **“Einfache Sprache”**). DEplain consists of four main subcorpora: DEplain-APA-doc, DEplain-APA-sent, DEplain-web-doc, and **DEplain-web-sent**. \r\n\r\nDEplain-web-sent consists of approx. 150 aligned documents and approx. 2k manually aligned sentence pairs. The data is publicly available (see licenses). The corpus include texts from the following domains: fictional texts (literature and fairy tales), bible texts, health-related texts, and texts for language learners. The corpus can be used for German **text simplification**, or in more detail **sentence simplification**. The corpus is also available on Huggingface: [https://huggingface.co/datasets/DEplain/DEplain-web-sent](https://huggingface.co/datasets/DEplain/DEplain-web-sent).","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://github.com/rstodden/DEPlain/tree/main/E__Sentence-level_Corpus/DEplain-web-sent","introduced_date":"2023-05-30","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":"/paper/deplain-a-german-parallel-corpus-with","title":"DEPLAIN: A German Parallel Corpus with Intralingual Translations into Plain Language for Sentence and Document Simplification","first_author":"Regina Stodden","url":null},"license":{"name":"CC-BY-SA-3; CC-BY-4; CC-BY-NC-ND-4","url":"https://github.com/rstodden/DEPlain/tree/main/E__Sentence-level_Corpus/DEplain-web-sent#licensing-information"},"modalities":[{"name":"Texts","url":"/datasets/modality/texts"}],"tasks":[{"name":"Text Simplification","url":"/task/text-simplification","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/text-simplification"}],"languages":[{"name":"German","url":"/datasets/language/german"}],"variants":["DEplain-web-sent"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":2,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/text-simplification-on-deplain-web-sent","task":"Text Simplification","dataset_variant":"DEplain-web-sent","rows":2,"metrics":["SARI (EASSE>=0.2.1)","BLEU","BertScore (Precision)","FRE (Flesch Reading Ease)"],"first_row_in_archive_order":{"model":"mBART (trained on DEplain-APA-sent & DEplain-web-sent)","paper":"/paper/deplain-a-german-parallel-corpus-with","metrics":{"BLEU":"17.88","BertScore (Precision)":"0.436","FRE (Flesch Reading Ease)":"65.249","SARI (EASSE>=0.2.1)":"34.828"},"code_links":[{"title":"rstodden/deplain","url":"https://github.com/rstodden/deplain"}]},"note":"rows are the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing here re-ranks them"}],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[{"paper":"/paper/deplain-a-german-parallel-corpus-with","title":"DEPLAIN: A German Parallel Corpus with Intralingual Translations into Plain Language for Sentence and Document Simplification","date":"2023-05-30","rows_on_this_dataset":2,"code_links":1,"syntology":null}],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}