“Geen makkie”: Interpretable Classification and Simplification of Dutch Text Complexity

An inclusive society needs to facilitate access to information for all of its members, including citizens with low literacy and with non-native language skills. We present an approach to assess Dutch text complexity on the sentence level and conduct an interpretability analysis to explore the link between neural models and linguistic complexity features. 1 Building on these findings, we develop the first contextual lexical simplification model for Dutch and publish a pilot dataset for evaluation. We go beyond previous work which primarily targeted lexical substitution and propose strategies fo... Mehr ...