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Learning Simple Wikipedia: A Cogitation in Ascertaining Abecedarian Language Courtney Napoles and Mark Dredze Center for Language and Speech Processing Human Language Technology Center of Excellence Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21211 courtneyn@, mdredze@ Abstract Text simplification (TS) is an emerging area of text- to-text generation that focuses on increasing the Text simplification is the process of changing readability of a given text. Potential applications vocabulary and grammatical structure to cre- can increase the accessibility of text, which has great ate a more accessible version of the text while value in education, public health, and safety, and can maintaining the underlying information and content. Automated tools for text simplifica- aid natural language processing tasks such as ma- tion are a practical way to make large corpora chine translation and text generation. of text accessible to a wider audience lacking Corresponding to these applications, TS can be high levels of fluency in the corpus language. broken down into two rough categories depending In this work, we investigate the potential of on the target “reader.” The first type of TS aims to Simple Wikipedia to assist automatic text sim-