Difficulty Estimation and Simplification of French Text Using LLMs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18061v1
• Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:16:08 GMT
• Title: Difficulty Estimation and Simplification of French Text Using LLMs
• Authors: Henri Jamet, Yash Raj Shrestha, Michalis Vlachos,
• Abstract summary: We leverage large language models for language learning applications, focusing on estimating the difficulty of foreign language texts. We develop a difficulty classification model using labeled examples, transfer learning, and large language models, demonstrating superior accuracy compared to previous approaches. Our experiments are conducted on French texts, but our methods are language-agnostic and directly applicable to other foreign languages.
• Score: 1.0568851068989973
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We leverage generative large language models for language learning applications, focusing on estimating the difficulty of foreign language texts and simplifying them to lower difficulty levels. We frame both tasks as prediction problems and develop a difficulty classification model using labeled examples, transfer learning, and large language models, demonstrating superior accuracy compared to previous approaches. For simplification, we evaluate the trade-off between simplification quality and meaning preservation, comparing zero-shot and fine-tuned performances of large language models. We show that meaningful text simplifications can be obtained with limited fine-tuning. Our experiments are conducted on French texts, but our methods are language-agnostic and directly applicable to other foreign languages.

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