Paper on Statement Evaluation in German Easy Language

GermEval Project

In collaboration with a team from the University of Düsseldorf, we published a paper at KONVENS 2024 on automated statement evaluation in German Easy Language.

German Easy Language is a lexically and grammatically simplified version of German that enables people with disabilities or non-native speakers* to access complex texts. Despite its mandatory use in official documents, there's little technology to support its writing.

Since German Easy Language follows a very specific set of rules, texts are usually reviewed by specially trained annotators, which is time consuming and costly. Our paper presents a solution for automatically analysing and locating statements in German Easy Language, allowing authors to streamline and speed up their writing process.

Kakolu Ramarao, A., Petersen, W., Stein, A., Stein, E., & Xia, H. (2024). KlarTextCoders at StaGE: Automatic Statement Annotations for German Easy Language. In Proceedings of GermEval 2024 Shared Task on Statement Segmentation in German Easy Language (StaGE) (pp. 15-27), Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Lingustics. https://aclanthology.org/2024.germeval-1.2.pdf