Introduction

📖 Introduction

Text simplification is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) task that rewrites complex sentences into simpler ones, making them easier to read and understand.

Why is it important?

• Enhances education by making reading easier for children and second-language learners
• Helps accessibility for people with reading difficulties (e.g., dyslexia)
• Improves machine learning pipelines, as simpler text boosts downstream NLP performance

This project uses a BERT-GPT2 Seq2Seq architecture:

• BERT (Encoder): Understands input context deeply
• GPT-2 (Decoder): Generates fluent simplified sentences