This repository contains code, dataset and models for Urdu text simplification as described in paper SimplifyUR: Unsupervised Lexical Text Simplification for Urdu.
The source is available as a Jupyter notebook for a Python 3 kernel. Please see requirements.txt for details.
Pre-trained models including Word2Vec, Parts of Speech (PoS) tagger and Language Model (LM) are available for download. Download and extract them to root directory, SimplifyUR.
A parallel corpus of complex-simplified Urdu sentence-pairs is the Data folder.
If you use this tool in any of your work, please cite below paper.
SimplifyUR: Unsupervised Lexical Text Simplification for Urdu
@InProceedings{qasmi-EtAl:2020:LREC,
author = {Qasmi, Namoos Hayat and Zia, Haris Bin and Athar, Awais and Raza, Agha Ali},
title = {SimplifyUR: Unsupervised Lexical Text Simplification for Urdu},
booktitle = {Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
month = {May},
year = {2020},
address = {Marseille, France},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association},
pages = {3484--3489},
url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.428}
}
Copyright (c) 2020 CSaLT, ITU
Code licensed under the MIT License: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT. Data licensed under CC-BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/