The BEA 2024 shared task on the multilingual lexical simplification pipeline

M Shardlow, F Alva-Manchego… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
We report the findings of the 2024 Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline shared task.
We released a new dataset comprising 5,927 instances of lexical complexity prediction and …

Overview of the CLEF 2022 SimpleText Lab: Automatic simplification of scientific texts

L Ermakova, E Sanjuan, J Kamps, S Huet… - … Conference of the Cross …, 2022 - Springer
Although citizens agree on the importance of objective scientific information, yet they tend to
avoid scientific literature due to access restrictions, its complex language or their lack of prior …

CLEF 2023 SimpleText Track: What Happens if General Users Search Scientific Texts?

L Ermakova, E SanJuan, S Huet, O Augereau… - … on Information Retrieval, 2023 - Springer
The general public tends to avoid reliable sources such as scientific literature due to their
complex language and lacking background knowledge. Instead, they rely on shallow and …

Towards self-contained answers: Entity-based answer rewriting in conversational search

I Sekulic, K Balog, F Crestani - Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Conversational Information Seeking (CIS) is an emerging paradigm for knowledge
acquisition and exploratory search. Traditional web search interfaces enable easy …

Text Simplification of Scientific Texts for Non-Expert Readers

B Engelmann, F Haak, CK Kreutz… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Reading levels are highly individual and can depend on a text's language, a person's
cognitive abilities, or knowledge on a topic. Text simplification is the task of rephrasing a text …

[PDF][PDF] HULAT-UC3M at SimpleText@ CLEF-2022: Scientific text simplification using BART.

A Rubio, P Martínez - CLEF (Working Notes), 2022 - ceur-ws.org
This paper describes the proposed system developed by HULAT-UC3M research group
from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid to solve Task 3 of SimpleText@ CLEF-2022 on …

Simplifying specialized texts with AI: a ChatGPT-based learning scenario

S Araújo, M Aguiar - … Conference in Information Technology and Education, 2023 - Springer
This paper introduces a methodology for facilitating the acquisition of specialized language
using artificial intelligence tools, specifically ChatGPT, to simplify complex texts. The …

[PDF][PDF] Overview of the CLEF 2022 SimpleText Task 3: Query biased simplification of scientific texts

L Ermakova, I Ovchinnikova, J Kamps… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - hal.science
This paper presents an overview of the CLEF 2022 SimpleText Task 3 on query biased
simplification of scientific text. After discussing the motivation and general task setup, we …

[PDF][PDF] Controllable Sentence Simplification Using Transfer Learning

A Menta, A Garcia-Serrano - Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF, 2022 - ceur-ws.org
The CLEF 2022 SimpleText track addresses the challenges of text simplification approaches
to generate versions of scientific texts for a non-expert audience in highly technical domains …

Overview of the CLEF 2022 SimpleText task 2: complexity spotting in scientific abstracts

L Ermakova, I Ovchinnikova, J Kamps… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - hal.science
This paper provides an overview of the Task 2: What is unclear? of the Automatic
Simplification of Scientific Texts (SimpleText) lab, run as part of CLEF 2022. The main aim of …