Text simplification, defined narrowly, is the process of reducing the linguistic complexity of a
text, while still retaining the original information and meaning. More broadly, text …

Text simplification modifies syntax and lexicon to improve the understandability of language
for an end user. This survey identifies and classifies simplification research within the period …

Automatic text simplification is a research field in computational linguistics that studies
methods and techniques to simplify textual content. Text simplification methods should …

In the age of knowledge, the democratisation of information facilitated through the Internet
may not be as pervasive if written language poses challenges to particular sectors of the …

The way in which a text is written can be a barrier for many people. Automatic text
simplification is a natural language processing technology that, when mature, could be used …

Sentence splitting is a major simplification operator. Here we present a simple and efficient
splitting algorithm based on an automatic semantic parser. After splitting, the text is …

This article explores the use of text simplification as a pre-processing step for statistical
machine translation of grammatically complex under-resourced languages. Our experiments …

Automatic text simplification is an active research area, and there are first systems for
English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. For German, no data-driven approach exists to …

The article at hand aggregates the work of our group in automatic processing of simplified
German. We present four parallel (standard/simplified German) corpora compiled and …

Readability assessment can play a role in the evaluation of a simplification algorithm as well
as in the identification of what to simplify. While some previous research used traditional …