Text Simplification via Adaptive Teaching
Seyed Ali Bahrainian, Jonathan Dou, Carsten Eickhoff · 2024
Text simplification is the process of rewriting a piece of text using simpler vocabulary and grammatical structure in order to make the text more accessible and understandable for a larger audience.In this paper, we introduce a new text simplification model based on the notion of adaptive teaching using a teacher network and a text generation network.We name this new model Simplification via Adaptive Teaching (SAT).Our proposed model sets a new state-of-the-art performance in terms of standard simplification metrics such as SARI and D-SARI with a significant improvement over the previous state of the art on the D-Wikipedia dataset and the Wiki-Doc benchmark dataset.Moreover, we conduct a human evaluation in terms of text simplicity, correctness, and fluency to substantiate SAT's performance.