论文标题
大学录取说明的简化文字：专业简化和经过验证的语料库
Text Simplification of College Admissions Instructions: A Professionally Simplified and Verified Corpus
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论文摘要
接受高等教育对于少数民族和新兴的双语学生至关重要。但是，高等教育机构用来与准学生交流的语言通常太复杂了。具体而言，美国的许多机构发布录取申请指令远远高于典型高中毕业生的平均阅读水平，通常接近13年级或14年级。这导致学生之间不必要的障碍和获得高等教育。这项工作旨在通过简化文本来应对这一挑战。我们介绍PSAT（专业简化的录取文本），这是一个数据集，其中有112个录取说明从美国各地的高等教育机构中随机选择。然后，这些文本将被专业地简化，验证和接受，并被各个机构招生办公室的专职员工专家接受。此外，PSAT带有1,883个原始简化句子对的手动对齐。结果是在与现有简化资源不同的高风险流派中评估和微调文本简化系统的首个语料库。
Access to higher education is critical for minority populations and emergent bilingual students. However, the language used by higher education institutions to communicate with prospective students is often too complex; concretely, many institutions in the US publish admissions application instructions far above the average reading level of a typical high school graduate, often near the 13th or 14th grade level. This leads to an unnecessary barrier between students and access to higher education. This work aims to tackle this challenge via text simplification. We present PSAT (Professionally Simplified Admissions Texts), a dataset with 112 admissions instructions randomly selected from higher education institutions across the US. These texts are then professionally simplified, and verified and accepted by subject-matter experts who are full-time employees in admissions offices at various institutions. Additionally, PSAT comes with manual alignments of 1,883 original-simplified sentence pairs. The result is a first-of-its-kind corpus for the evaluation and fine-tuning of text simplification systems in a high-stakes genre distinct from existing simplification resources.
