Text Simplification

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

20 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 129 papers with code (468 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Ascle: A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Medical Text Generation
  28 Nov 2023 3 repositories listed
  This study introduces Ascle, a pioneering natural language processing (NLP) toolkit designed for medical text generation.
• Felix: Flexible Text Editing Through Tagging and Insertion
  24 Mar 2020 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 5 samples · 2 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  We achieve this by decomposing the text-editing task into two sub-tasks: tagging to decide on the subset of input tokens and their order in the output text and insertion to in-fill the missing tokens in the output not…
• Automatic Input Rewriting Improves Translation with Large Language Models
  23 Feb 2025 2 repositories listed
  We show that text simplification is the most effective MT-agnostic rewrite strategy and that it can be improved further when using quality estimation to assess translatability.
• TESS: Text-to-Text Self-Conditioned Simplex Diffusion
  15 May 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 15 samples · 15 unverified
  Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for generation, obtaining strong performance in various continuous domains.
• Lossless Acceleration for Seq2seq Generation with Aggressive Decoding
  20 May 2022 2 repositories listed
  We study lossless acceleration for seq2seq generation with a novel decoding algorithm -- Aggressive Decoding.
• Klexikon: A German Dataset for Joint Summarization and Simplification
  18 Jan 2022 2 repositories listed
  Traditionally, Text Simplification is treated as a monolingual translation task where sentences between source texts and their simplified counterparts are aligned for training.
• Control Prefixes for Parameter-Efficient Text Generation
  15 Oct 2021 2 repositories listed
  Prefix-tuning is a powerful lightweight technique for adapting a large pre-trained language model to a downstream application.
• HTSS: A Novel Hybrid Text Summarisation and Simplification Architecture
  13 Jul 2020 2 repositories listed
  Our results show that our proposed HTSS model outperforms neural text simplification (NTS) on SARI score and abstractive text summarisation (ATS) on the ROUGE score.
• Controllable Sentence Simplification
  7 Oct 2019 2 repositories listed
  Text simplification aims at making a text easier to read and understand by simplifying grammar and structure while keeping the underlying information identical.
• Complexity-Weighted Loss and Diverse Reranking for Sentence Simplification
  4 Apr 2019 2 repositories listed
  Sentence simplification is the task of rewriting texts so they are easier to understand.
• DiscoFuse: A Large-Scale Dataset for Discourse-Based Sentence Fusion
  27 Feb 2019 2 repositories listed
  We author a set of rules for identifying a diverse set of discourse phenomena in raw text, and decomposing the text into two independent sentences.
• Document-Level Text Generation with Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding using Optimal Transport
  29 May 2025 1 repository listed
  Although MBR decoding is shown to be effective in a wide range of sentence-level text generation tasks, its performance on document-level text generation tasks is limited as many of the utility functions are designed…
• Enhancing Paraphrase Type Generation: The Impact of DPO and RLHF Evaluated with Human-Ranked Data
  28 May 2025 1 repository listed
  The PTD model surpasses automated metrics and provides a more reliable framework for evaluating paraphrase quality, advancing paraphrase-type research toward richer, user-aligned language generation and establishing a…
• Aligning Sentence Simplification with ESL Learner's Proficiency for Language Acquisition
  17 Feb 2025 1 repository listed
  Experiment results on CEFR-SP and TurkCorpus datasets show that the proposed method can effectively increase the frequency and diversity of vocabulary of the target level by more than 20% compared to baseline models,…
• SiTSE: Sinhala Text Simplification Dataset and Evaluation
  2 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  Text Simplification is a task that has been minimally explored for low-resource languages.
• BERTScoreVisualizer: A Web Tool for Understanding Simplified Text Evaluation with BERTScore
  10 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  The BERTScore metric is commonly used to evaluate automatic text simplification systems.
• Two-Pronged Human Evaluation of ChatGPT Self-Correction in Radiology Report Simplification
  27 Jun 2024 1 repository listed
  Radiology reports are highly technical documents aimed primarily at doctor-doctor communication.
• Simpler becomes Harder: Do LLMs Exhibit a Coherent Behavior on Simplified Corpora?
  10 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  Text simplification seeks to improve readability while retaining the original content and meaning.
• EASSE-DE: Easier Automatic Sentence Simplification Evaluation for German
  4 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  In this work, we propose EASSE-multi, a framework for easier automatic sentence evaluation for languages other than English.
• REFeREE: A REference-FREE Model-Based Metric for Text Simplification
  26 Mar 2024 1 repository listed
  Text simplification lacks a universal standard of quality, and annotated reference simplifications are scarce and costly.
• ARTiST: Automated Text Simplification for Task Guidance in Augmented Reality
  29 Feb 2024 1 repository listed
  Text presented in augmented reality provides in-situ, real-time information for users.
• mEdIT: Multilingual Text Editing via Instruction Tuning
  26 Feb 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified
  We introduce mEdIT, a multi-lingual extension to CoEdIT -- the recent state-of-the-art text editing models for writing assistance.
• German Text Simplification: Finetuning Large Language Models with Semi-Synthetic Data
  16 Feb 2024 1 repository listed
  This study pioneers the use of synthetically generated data for training generative models in document-level text simplification of German texts.
• MedTSS: transforming abstractive summarization of scientific articles with linguistic analysis and concept reinforcement
  30 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  This research addresses the limitations of pretrained models (PTMs) in generating accurate and comprehensive abstractive summaries for scientific articles, with a specific focus on the challenges posed by medical…
• InfoLossQA: Characterizing and Recovering Information Loss in Text Simplification
  29 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  Text simplification aims to make technical texts more accessible to laypeople but often results in deletion of information and vagueness.
• Health Text Simplification: An Annotated Corpus for Digestive Cancer Education and Novel Strategies for Reinforcement Learning
  26 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  Our innovative RLHF reward function surpassed existing RL text simplification reward functions in effectiveness.
• Exploring Automatic Text Simplification of German Narrative Documents
  15 Dec 2023 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we apply transformer-based Natural Language Generation (NLG) techniques to the problem of text simplification.
• Do Text Simplification Systems Preserve Meaning? A Human Evaluation via Reading Comprehension
  15 Dec 2023 1 repository listed
  With this framework, we conduct a thorough human evaluation of texts by humans and by nine automatic systems.
• BLESS: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Sentence Simplification
  24 Oct 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 7 of 8 samples · 1 unverified
  Our performance benchmark will be available as a resource for the development of future TS methods and evaluation metrics.
• Evaluation Metrics in the Era of GPT-4: Reliably Evaluating Large Language Models on Sequence to Sequence Tasks
  20 Oct 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 4 of 5 samples · 1 unverified
  Large Language Models (LLMs) evaluation is a patchy and inconsistent landscape, and it is becoming clear that the quality of automatic evaluation metrics is not keeping up with the pace of development of generative…

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