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title = "Neural Readability Pairwise Ranking for Sentences in {I}talian Administrative Language",
author = "Miliani, Martina and
Auriemma, Serena and
Alva-Manchego, Fernando and
Lenci, Alessandro",
editor = "He, Yulan and
Ji, Heng and
Li, Sujian and
Liu, Yang and
Chang, Chua-Hui",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = nov,
year = "2022",
address = "Online only",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.aacl-main.63/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.aacl-main.63",
pages = "849--866",
abstract = "Automatic Readability Assessment aims at assigning a complexity level to a given text, which could help improve the accessibility to information in specific domains, such as the administrative one. In this paper, we investigate the behavior of a Neural Pairwise Ranking Model (NPRM) for sentence-level readability assessment of Italian administrative texts. To deal with data scarcity, we experiment with cross-lingual, cross- and in-domain approaches, and test our models on Admin-It, a new parallel corpus in the Italian administrative language, containing sentences simplified using three different rewriting strategies. We show that NPRMs are effective in zero-shot scenarios ({\textasciitilde}0.78 ranking accuracy), especially with ranking pairs containing simplifications produced by overall rewriting at the sentence-level, and that the best results are obtained by adding in-domain data (achieving perfect performance for such sentence pairs). Finally, we investigate where NPRMs failed, showing that the characteristics of the training data, rather than its size, have a bigger effect on a model`s performance."
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%A Miliani, Martina
%A Auriemma, Serena
%A Alva-Manchego, Fernando
%A Lenci, Alessandro
%Y He, Yulan
%Y Ji, Heng
%Y Li, Sujian
%Y Liu, Yang
%Y Chang, Chua-Hui
%S Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
%D 2022
%8 November
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%C Online only
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%P 849-866
Markdown (Informal)
[Neural Readability Pairwise Ranking for Sentences in Italian Administrative Language](https://aclanthology.org/2022.aacl-main.63/) (Miliani et al., AACL-IJCNLP 2022)
ACL
- Martina Miliani, Serena Auriemma, Fernando Alva-Manchego, and Alessandro Lenci. 2022. Neural Readability Pairwise Ranking for Sentences in Italian Administrative Language. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 849–866, Online only. Association for Computational Linguistics.