Search-based methods for hard combinatorial optimization are often guided by heuristics.
Tuning heuristics in various conditions and situations is often time-consuming. In this paper …

In order to simplify sentences, several rewriting operations can be performed, such as
replacing complex words per simpler synonyms, deleting unnecessary information, and …

Sentence Simplification (SS) aims to modify a sentence in order to make it easier to read
and understand. In order to do so, several rewriting transformations can be performed such …

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 …

Lexical Simplification is the process of replacing complex words in a given sentence with
simpler alternatives of equivalent meaning. This task has wide applicability both as an …

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 …

Current research in text simplification has been hampered by two central problems:(i) the
small amount of high-quality parallel simplification data available, and (ii) the lack of explicit …

While most neural generative models generate outputs in a single pass, the human creative
process is usually one of iterative building and refinement. Recent work has proposed …

The readability of text documents has been studied from a linguistic perspective long before
people began to regularly communicate via Internet technologies. Typically, such studies …