Problems in Current Text Simplification Research: New Data Can Help
Wei Hong Xu, Chris Callison-Burch, Courtney Napoles · Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2015
Simple Wikipedia has dominated simplification research in the past 5 years. In this opinion paper, we argue that focusing on Wikipedia limits simplification research. We back up our arguments with corpus analysis and by highlighting statements that other researchers have made in the simplification literature. We introduce a new simplification dataset that is a significant improvement over Simple Wikipedia, and present a novel quantitative-comparative approach to study the quality of simplification data resources.