ACL 2023long13 citations
A New Aligned Simple German Corpus
Vanessa Toborek, Moritz Busch, Malte Boßert, Christian Bauckhage, Pascal Welke
Abstract
“Leichte Sprache”, the German counterpart to Simple English, is a regulated language aiming to facilitate complex written language that would otherwise stay inaccessible to different groups of people. We present a new sentence-aligned monolingual corpus for Simple German – German. It contains multiple document-aligned sources which we have aligned using automatic sentence-alignment methods. We evaluate our alignments based on a manually labelled subset of aligned documents. The quality of our sentence alignments, as measured by the F1-score, surpasses previous work. We publish the dataset under CC BY-SA and the accompanying code under MIT license.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{toborek-etal-2023-new,
title = "A New Aligned Simple {G}erman Corpus",
author = "Toborek, Vanessa and
Busch, Moritz and
Bo{\ss}ert, Malte and
Bauckhage, Christian and
Welke, Pascal",
editor = "Rogers, Anna and
Boyd-Graber, Jordan and
Okazaki, Naoaki",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = jul,
year = "2023",
address = "Toronto, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.638/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.638",
pages = "11393--11412"
}