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Ashwin Devaraj

2 accepted papers

2022

Evaluating Factuality in Text Simplification

ACL 2022long

Automated simplification models aim to make input texts more readable. Such methods have the potential to make complex information accessible to a wider audience, e.g., providing access to recent medical literature which might otherwise be impenetrable for a lay reader. However, such models risk int…

2021

Paragraph-level Simplification of Medical Texts

NAACL 2021long

We consider the problem of learning to simplify medical texts. This is important because most reliable, up-to-date information in biomedicine is dense with jargon and thus practically inaccessible to the lay audience. Furthermore, manual simplification does not scale to the rapidly growing body of b…