Can summarization approximate simplification? A gold standard comparison

Giacomo Magnifico, Eduard Barbu
1/27/2025
cs.CL

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This study explores the overlap between text summarization and simplification outputs. While summarization evaluation methods are streamlined, simplification lacks cohesion, prompting the question: how closely can abstractive summarization resemble gold-standard simplification? We address this by applying two BART-based BRIO summarization methods to the Newsela corpus, comparing outputs with manually annotated simplifications and achieving a top ROUGE-L score of 0.654. This provides insight into where summarization and simplification outputs converge and differ.

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@article{magnifico2025summarization,
  title  = {Can summarization approximate simplification? A gold standard comparison},
  author = {Giacomo Magnifico and Eduard Barbu},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2501.16181},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16181v1}
}

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