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.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.acl-long.638
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Toronto, Canada
- Editors:
- Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 11393–11412
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.638
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.638
- Cite (ACL):
- Vanessa Toborek, Moritz Busch, Malte Boßert, Christian Bauckhage, and Pascal Welke. 2023. A New Aligned Simple German Corpus. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 11393–11412, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- A New Aligned Simple German Corpus (Toborek et al., ACL 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/2023.acl-long.638.pdf