Toborek, Vanessa and Busch, Moritz and Boßert, Malte and Bauckhage, Christian and Welke, Pascal (2023) A New Aligned Simple German Corpus. In: Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) :. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Anthology), Stroudsburg, PA, pp. 11393-11412. ISBN 9781959429722
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“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 the F1-score, surpasses previous work. We publish the dataset under CC BY-SA and the accompanying code under MIT license.