LengClaro2023: A Dataset of Administrative Texts in Spanish with Plain Language adaptations

TL;DR

LengClaro2023 introduces a Spanish legal-administrative text dataset with simplified versions to evaluate automatic text simplification systems, aiding accessibility and comprehension.

Contribution

The paper provides a new dataset of Spanish administrative texts with multiple simplified versions, facilitating research in automatic text simplification for legal language.

Findings

Dataset includes original and simplified texts for Spanish legal documents

Two types of simplifications are provided: arText claro and plain language guidelines

Resource supports evaluation of ATS systems in Spanish

Abstract

In this work, we present LengClaro2023, a dataset of legal-administrative texts in Spanish. Based on the most frequently used procedures from the Spanish Social Security website, we have created for each text two simplified equivalents. The first version follows the recommendations provided by arText claro. The second version incorporates additional recommendations from plain language guidelines to explore further potential improvements in the system. The linguistic resource created in this work can be used for evaluating automatic text simplification (ATS) systems in Spanish.