AI RESEARCH
DETECT: Determining Ease and Textual Clarity of German Text Simplifications
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2510.22212v2 Announce Type: replace Current evaluation of German automatic text simplification (ATS) relies on general-purpose metrics such as SARI, BLEU, and BERTScore, which insufficiently capture simplification quality in terms of simplicity, meaning preservation, and fluency. While specialized metrics like LENS have been developed for English, corresponding efforts for German have lagged behind due to the absence of human-annotated corpora. To close this gap, we