German Text Simplification Models
摘要
In previous chapters, I have introduced corpora and evaluation methods for (German) text simplification. Building on this, in this chapter, I will describe the last missing component in the academic text simplification workflow, i.e., approaches towards automatically simplifying (German) complex texts (see step G in Figure 2.1 in Subsection 2.2.2). I will first start with a short timeline regarding the development of English TS models in the last years (see Section 6.1). Then, I will focus on German text simplification models or multi-lingual TS models which include German texts either in training or evaluation.1 Most of the approaches presented are either rule-based or neural sequence-to-sequence models. Therefore, I split the last category more fine-grained as follows.