Fernando Alva-Manchego

Fernando Alva-Manchego

Researcher in Natural Language Processing
My research interests include text simplification, readability assessment, multilingual NLP, Welsh language technology, and NLP for education and social care.

Validating Quality Estimation in a Computer-Aided Translation Workflow: Speed, Cost and Quality Trade-off

MT Summit XVIII: Users and Providers Track

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Knowledge Distillation for Quality Estimation

Findings of ACL-IJCNLP 2021

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Controllable Text Simplification with Explicit Paraphrasing

Text Simplification improves the readability of sentences through several rewriting transformations, such as lexical paraphrasing, deletion, and splitting. Current simplification …

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Automatic Sentence Simplification with Multiple Rewriting Transformations

PhD Thesis

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ASSET: A Dataset for Tuning and Evaluation of Sentence Simplification Models with Multiple Rewriting Transformations

We introduce ASSET, a dataset for assessing sentence simplification in English. ASSET is a crowdsourced multi-reference corpus where each simplification was produced by executing …

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Data-Driven Sentence Simplification: Survey and Benchmark

We survey research on Sentence Simplification, focusing on approaches that attempt to learn how to simplify using corpora of aligned original-simplified sentence pairs in English.

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EASSE: Easier Automatic Sentence Simplification Evaluation

We introduce EASSE, a Python package aiming to facilitate and standardise automatic evaluation and comparison of Sentence Simplification systems.

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Cross-Sentence Transformations in Text Simplification

WiNLP 2019

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Strong Baselines for Complex Word Identification across Multiple Languages

NAACL 2019

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