{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/readability-based-sentence-ranking-for","title":"Readability-based Sentence Ranking for Evaluating Text Simplification","arxiv_id":"1603.06009","date":"2016-03-18","proceeding":null,"authors":["Sowmya Vajjala","Detmar Meurers"],"abstract":"We propose a new method for evaluating the readability of simplified\nsentences through pair-wise ranking. The validity of the method is established\nthrough in-corpus and cross-corpus evaluation experiments. The approach\ncorrectly identifies the ranking of simplified and unsimplified sentences in\nterms of their reading level with an accuracy of over 80%, significantly\noutperforming previous results. To gain qualitative insights into the nature of\nsimplification at the sentence level, we studied the impact of specific\nlinguistic features. We empirically confirm that both word-level and syntactic\nfeatures play a role in comparing the degree of simplification of authentic\ndata. To carry out this research, we created a new sentence-aligned corpus from\nprofessionally simplified news articles. The new corpus resource enriches the\nempirical basis of sentence-level simplification research, which so far relied\non a single resource. Most importantly, it facilitates cross-corpus evaluation\nfor simplification, a key step towards generalizable results.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06009v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.06009v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"readability-based-sentence-ranking-for","repo_url":"https://bitbucket.org/nishkalavallabhi/complexity-features","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"articles","task_name":"Articles"},{"task_slug":"cross-corpus","task_name":"Cross-corpus"},{"task_slug":"sentence","task_name":"Sentence"},{"task_slug":"text-simplification","task_name":"Text Simplification"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/1603.06009","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1603.06009","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}