PaCCSS-IT: A Parallel Corpus of Complex-Simple Sentences for Automatic Text Simplification

• DOI: 10.18653/v1/d16-1034
• Publication Date: 2016-12-30T08:17:50Z
• Authors: Dominique Brunato; Andrea Cimino; Felice Dell'Orletta; Giulia Venturi
• Keywords: Text Simplification

In this paper we present PaCCSS-IT, a Parallel Corpus of Complex-Simple Sentences for ITalian.To build the resource develop new method automatically acquiring corpus complex-simple paired sentences able to intercept structural transformations and particularly suitable text simplification.The requires wide amount texts that can be easily extracted from web making it also less-resourced languages.We test on Italian language available biggest automatic simplification.