DEplain Alignment via Sentence Transformers

As a part of the paper "DEplain: A German Parallel Corpus with Intralingual Translations into Plain Language for Sentence and Document Simplification.", we developed and evaluated a simple method utilizing sentence transformers to align German text datasets automatically.

Usage

After cloning the repository

1. Setup the environment

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -U pip setuptools
pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Go through the procedure.ipynb notebook for aligning your documents