Datasets & Resources

Datasets and resources created by the Language Technology for Accessibility research group. 

https://www.wmt-slt.com/

Novel task requiring the processing of visual information (video frames, human pose estimation) beyond the standard paradigm of text-to-text machine translation with training data for Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS) and German (DE). 

Source code

Usage examples, documentation, and code available on WMT-SLT and GitHub.

Data

Training data

Mathias Müller, Sarah Ebling, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Zifan Jiang, Alessia Battisti, Amit Moryossef, Annette Rios, Richard Bowden, Ryan Wong

Available upon request on Zenodo.

Videos and subtitles

Mathias Müller, Sarah Ebling, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Zifan Jiang, Alessia Battisti, Katja Tissi, Sandra Sidler-Miserez, Regula Perrollaz, Michèle Berger, Sabine Reinhard, Amit Moryossef, Annette Rios, Richard Bowden, Ryan Wong, Robin Ribback, Severine Schori

Available upon request on Zenodo.

Poses

Mathias Müller, Sarah Ebling, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Zifan Jiang, Alessia Battisti, Katja Tissi, Sandra Sidler-Miserez, Regula Perrollaz, Michèle Berger, Sabine Reinhard, Amit Moryossef, Annette Rios, Richard Bowden, Ryan Wong

Available upon request on Zenodo.

Andreas Säuberli

Mobile (Android/iOS) app enabling participation in cloze tests, lexical decision tasks, multiple-choice question answering, n-back working memory tasks, picture naming, reaction time tests, and Simon games (working memory task) in English, Standard German, and Swiss German.

Source code

Available on GitHub.

Paper

Enabling text comprehensibility assessment for people with intellectual disabilities using a mobile application (2023)

Nicolas Spring, Annette Rios, Sarah Ebling

Alignments extracted with LHA (Nikolov and Hahnloser, 2019) for CEFR levels A2 and B1 to the original standard German text from Austria Press Agency (Austria Presse Agentur, APA) news items between August 2018 and April 2021.

Data

Available upon request on Zenodo.

Paper

Exploring German Multi-Level Text Simplification (2021)

Source code

Available on GitHub.

Alessia Battisti, Dominik Pfütze, Andreas Säuberli, Marek Kostrzewa, Sarah Ebling

Corpus of parallel and monolingual-only (simplified German) data compiled from web sources containing additional information on text structure, typography, and images.

Paper

A Corpus for Automatic Readability Assessment and Text Simplification of German (2020)

Source code

Available upon request on Zenodo.

Marek Kostrzewa

Source code

Available on GitHub.

Sarah Ebling, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Penny Boyes Braem, Katja Tissi, Sandra Sidler-Miserez, Stephanie Stoll, Simon Hadfield, Tobias Haug, Richard Bowden, Sandrine Tornay, Marzieh Razavi, Mathew Magimai Doss

Large-scale dataset containing videotaped repeated productions of 100 items of a vocabulary test with associated transcriptions and annotations, consisting of data from 11 adult L1 signers and 19 adult L2 learners of DSGS.

Paper

SMILE Swiss German Sign Language Dataset (2018)

Source code

Available upon request on Zenodo.

Annette Rios, Nicolas Spring, Tannon Kew, Marek Kostrzewa, Andreas Säuberli, Mathias Müller, Sarah Ebling

Dataset of full articles (in German) from the Swiss news magazine '20 Minuten' paired with simplified summaries.

Data

Scripts and instructions for downloading the data available on GitHub. 

Paper

20 Minuten: A Multi-task News Summarisation Dataset for German (2023)

A New Dataset and Efficient Baselines for Document-level Text Simplification in German (2021)