EhiMeNLP at TSAR 2025 Shared Task Candidate Generation via Iterative Simplification and Reranking by Readability and Semantic Similarity
Rina Miyata, Koki Horiguchi, Risa Kondo, Yuki Fujiwara, Tomoyuki Kajiwara
Abstract
We introduce the EhiMeNLP submission, which won the TSAR 2025 Shared Task on Readability-Controlled Text Simplification. Our system employed a two-step strategy of candidate generation and reranking. For candidate generation, we simplified the given text into more readable versions by combining multiple large language models with prompts. Then, for reranking, we selected the best candidate by readability-based filtering and ranking based on semantic similarity to the original text.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.tsar-1.18
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2025)
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Suzhou, China
- Editors:
- Matthew Shardlow, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Kai North, Regina Stodden, Horacio Saggion, Nouran Khallaf, Akio Hayakawa
- Venues:
- TSAR | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 217–222
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.tsar-1.18/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Rina Miyata, Koki Horiguchi, Risa Kondo, Yuki Fujiwara, and Tomoyuki Kajiwara. 2025. EhiMeNLP at TSAR 2025 Shared Task Candidate Generation via Iterative Simplification and Reranking by Readability and Semantic Similarity. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2025), pages 217–222, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- EhiMeNLP at TSAR 2025 Shared Task Candidate Generation via Iterative Simplification and Reranking by Readability and Semantic Similarity (Miyata et al., TSAR 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.tsar-1.18.pdf