Klexikon: A German Dataset for Joint Summarization and Simplification (LREC'22)
Channel: Dennis Aumiller
Date: 2022-05-14

In this work, we present a dataset extracted by aligning articles from German Wikipedia and the children's encyclopedia "Klexikon". We hypothesize that these alignments are suitable to train systems that are both able to simplify and summarize a given long-form Wikipedia article, due to the assumed discrepancies in writing difficulty and overall text length of the two domains.
Ultimately, we empirically demonstrate that articles do have properties both discernible in text complexity and length, and provide a series of downstream tasks that could foster collaboration at the intersection of the two communtiies.

The work will be presented as an oral presentation at the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'22), held at the Palais du Pharo in Marseille between 20-25th June, 2022.

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