A New Aligned Simple German Corpus
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Abstract (arXiv)
"Leichte Sprache", the German counterpart to Simple English, is a regulated language aiming to facilitate complex written language that would otherwise stay inaccessible to different groups of people. We present a new sentence-aligned monolingual corpus for Simple German -- German. It contains multiple document-aligned sources which we have aligned using automatic sentence-alignment methods. We evaluate our alignments based on a manually labelled subset of aligned documents. The quality of our sentence alignments, as measured by F1-score, surpasses previous work. We publish the dataset under CC BY-SA and the accompanying code under MIT license.
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Citing papers per year: 2023: 3; 2024: 2; 2025: 3; 2026: 2.
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- 2023Language Models for German Text Simplification: Overcoming Parallel Data Scarcity through Style-specific Pre-trainingcited by 15
- 2023DEPLAIN: A German Parallel Corpus with Intralingual Translations into Plain Language for Sentence and Document Simplificationcited by 14
- 2024German Text Simplification: Finetuning Large Language Models with Semi-Synthetic Datacited by 4
- 2023Data and Approaches for German Text simplification -- towards an Accessibility-enhanced Communicationcited by 2
- 2025German4All -- A Dataset and Model for Readability-Controlled Paraphrasing in Germancited by 2
- 2024EASSE-DE: Easier Automatic Sentence Simplification Evaluation for Germancited by 0
- 2025Evaluating the Effectiveness of Direct Preference Optimization for Personalizing German Automatic Text Simplifications for Persons with Intellectual Disabilitiescited by 0
- 2025DETECT: Determining Ease and Textual Clarity of German Text Simplificationscited by 0
- 2026Profiling German Text Simplification with Interpretable Model-Fingerprintscited by 0
- 2026PlainMedScale: A Corpus of Multi-Level Simplified Medical Texts in German and Englishcited by 0
- 2026PlainMedScale: A Corpus of Multi-Level Simplified Medical Texts in German and English2 Aug 2026
- 2026Profiling German Text Simplification with Interpretable Model-Fingerprints19 Jan 2026
- 2025DETECT: Determining Ease and Textual Clarity of German Text Simplifications25 Oct 2025
- 2025German4All -- A Dataset and Model for Readability-Controlled Paraphrasing in German25 Aug 2025
- 2025Evaluating the Effectiveness of Direct Preference Optimization for Personalizing German Automatic Text Simplifications for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities2 Jul 2025
- 2024EASSE-DE: Easier Automatic Sentence Simplification Evaluation for German4 Apr 2024
- 2024German Text Simplification: Finetuning Large Language Models with Semi-Synthetic Data16 Feb 2024
- 2023Data and Approaches for German Text simplification -- towards an Accessibility-enhanced Communication15 Dec 2023
- 2023DEPLAIN: A German Parallel Corpus with Intralingual Translations into Plain Language for Sentence and Document Simplification30 May 2023
- 2023Language Models for German Text Simplification: Overcoming Parallel Data Scarcity through Style-specific Pre-training22 May 2023