Know-AI at TSAR 2025 Shared Task Difficulty-aware Text Simplification System

Yiheng Wu, Anisia Katinskaia, Jue Hou, Roman Yangarber


Abstract
Text simplification is an active research topic with applications in multiple domains. In a simplification pipeline, assessment of text difficulty plays a crucial role as a quality control mechanism it acts as a critic and guides models to generate text at the difficulty level required by the user. This paper presents our Difficulty-aware Text Simplification System. We evaluate our pipeline using the TSAR shared task dataset and discuss challenges in constructing corpora for training models to assess text difficulty.
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2025.tsar-1.24
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2025)
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November
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2025
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Suzhou, China
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Matthew Shardlow, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Kai North, Regina Stodden, Horacio Saggion, Nouran Khallaf, Akio Hayakawa
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TSAR | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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266–272
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Yiheng Wu, Anisia Katinskaia, Jue Hou, and Roman Yangarber. 2025. Know-AI at TSAR 2025 Shared Task Difficulty-aware Text Simplification System. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2025), pages 266–272, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Know-AI at TSAR 2025 Shared Task Difficulty-aware Text Simplification System (Wu et al., TSAR 2025)
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