@inproceedings{toborek-etal-2023-new,
    title = "A New Aligned Simple {G}erman Corpus",
    author = "Toborek, Vanessa  and
      Busch, Moritz  and
      Bo{\ss}ert, Malte  and
      Bauckhage, Christian  and
      Welke, Pascal",
    editor = "Rogers, Anna  and
      Boyd-Graber, Jordan  and
      Okazaki, Naoaki",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.638",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.638",
    pages = "11393--11412",
    abstract = "{``}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.",
}

{``}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.
Toborek, Vanessa Busch, Moritz Bo{\ss}ert, Malte Bauckhage, Christian Welke, Pascal
A New Aligned Simple German Corpus