CLEF 2025 SimpleText Track: Simplify Scientific Text (and Nothing More)
The SimpleText track aims at improving accessibility to scientific information for everyone, developing corpora, evaluation measures, and new IR/NL models able to reduce scientific text complexity with strict faithfulness to the original text.
Tasks:
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Task 1 — Text Simplification: simplify scientific text
Task 1 on Text Simplification aims to simplify scientific text, using aligned biomedical abstracts and lay summaries for sentence-level, paragraph-level, and document-level text simplification.
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Task 2 — Controlled Creativity: identify and avoid hallucination
Task 2 on Controlled Creativity aims to identify and avoid hallucination, by either post-hoc detection on CLEF submissions with over-generation, or by avoiding creative license of models by design.
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Task 3 — SimpleText 2024 Revisited: selected tasks by popular request
Task 3 on SimpleText 2024 Revisited aims to rerun selected tasks by popular request, on scientific passage retrieval and complex terminology detection, and on tracking the state-of-the-art in scholarly papers.
Organizers
- Liana Ermakova (Université de Bretagne-Occidentale, Brest, France)
- Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Contact
- Liana Ermakova <liana.ermakova@univ-brest.fr>
- Jaap Kamps <kamps@uva.nl>
