2015

Štajner, S., Rodrigues, J., Gomes, L. and Branco, A. 2015. Machine Translation for Multilingual Troubleshooting in the IT Domain: A Comparison of Different Strategies. In Proceedings of the Deep Machine Translation Workshop (DMTW), Prague, Czech Republic, 3-4 September 2015, pp. 106-115. (pdf)

Štajner, S., Béchara, H. and Saggion, H. 2015. A Deeper Exploration of the Standard PB-SMT Approach to Text Simplification and its Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP), Beijing, China, 26-31 July 2015, pp. 823-828. (pdf, bibtex) acc.rate: 22.3%

Glavaš G. and Štajner S. 2015. Simplifying Lexical Simplification: Do We Need Simplified Corpora? In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP), Beijing, China, 26-31 July 2015, pp. 63-68. (pdf, bibtex) acc.rate: 22.3%

Štajner, S., Calixto, I. and Saggion, H. 2015. Automatic Text Simplification for Spanish: Comparative Evaluation of Various Simplification Strategies. In Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), Hissar, Bulgaria, 5-11 September 2015, pp. 618-626.

Štajner, S. and Saggion, H. 2015. Translating from Original to Simplified Sentences using Moses: When does it Actually Work? In Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), Hissar, Bulgaria, 5-11 September 2015, pp. 617-617.

Saggion, H., Štajner, S., Bott, S., Mille, S., Rello, L. and Drndarevic, B. 2015. Making It Simplext: Implementation and Evaluation of a Text Simplification System for Spanish. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS), Vol. 6, Issue 4, Article no. 14.(pdf, bibtex)

Štajner, S. 2015. "New Data-Driven Approaches to Text Simplification". PhD thesis. University of Wolverhampton, UK.

Štajner, S., Mitkov, R. and Corpas Pastor, G. 2015. 'Simple or not simple? A readability question'. In N. Gala, R. Rapp, and G. Bel-Enguix (eds), Recent Advances in Language Production, Cognition and the Lexicon, Springer, pp. 379-398. (link, bibtex)

2014

Štajner, S. 2014. Translating sentences from 'original' to 'simplified' Spanish. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, Vol. 53, pp. 61-68.(pdf, bibtex)

Štajner, S., Evans R. and Dornescu, I. 2014. Assessing Conformance of Manually Simplified Corpora with User Requirements: the Case of Autistic Readers. Proceedings of the COLING workshop on Automatic Text Simplification - Methods and Applications in the Multilingual Society (ATS-MA), Dublin, Ireland, 24 August 2014, pp. 53-63. (pdf, bibtex)

Mitkov, R. and Štajner, S. 2014. The Fewer, the Better? A Contrastive Study about Ways to Simplify. Proceedings of the COLING workshop on Automatic Text Simplification - Methods and Applications in the Multilingual Society (ATS-MA), Dublin, Ireland, 24 August 2014, pp. 30-40. (pdf, bibtex)

Štajner, S., Mitkov, R. and Saggion, H. 2014. One Step Closer to Automatic Evaluation of Text Simplification Systems. In Proceedings of the EACL workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations (PITR), Gothenburg, Sweden, 27 April 2014, pp. 1-10. (pdf, bibtex)

Štajner, S., Mitkov, R. and Leech, G. 2014. Natural Language Processing Methodology for Tracking Diachronic Changes in the 20th Century English Language. Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science, Vol 1, No 1, pp.71-112. (link, bibtex)

2013

Štajner, S. and Saggion, H. 2013. Readability Indices for Automatic Evaluation of Text Simplification Systems: A Feasibility Study for Spanish. In Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Nagoya, Japan, 14-18 October 2013, pp. 374-382. (pdf, bibtex) acc.rate: 23.4%

Glavaš G. and Štajner S. 2013. Event-Centered Simplification of News Stories. In Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP) , Hissar, Bulgaria, 9-11 September 2013. Best paper award. (pdf, bibtex) acc.rate: 11%

Štajner, S. and Saggion, H. 2013. Adapting Text Simplification Decisions to Different Text Genres and Target Users. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, Vol. 51, pp. 135-142. (pdf, bibtex)

Štajner, S. and Evans, R. 2013. Can Statistical Tests Be Used for Feature Selection in Diachronic Text Classification? In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 7978, Springer, pp. 273-283. (link, bibtex)

Štajner, S. and Zampieri, M. 2013. Stylistic Changes for Temporal Text Classification. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD2013). Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 8082, Springer, pp. 519-526. (link, bibtex)

Štajner, S., Drndarevic, B. and Saggion, H. 2013. Corpus-based Sentence Deletion and Split Decisions for Spanish Text Simplification. Computación y Sistemas, Vol.17, No.2, pp. 251-262, ISSN 1405-5546. (pdf, bibtex)

Drndarevic, B., Štajner, S., Bott, S., Bautista, S. and Saggion, H. 2013. Automatic Text Simplification in Spanish: A Comparative Evaluation of Complementing Modules. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (Part II). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7817, Springer, pp. 488-500. (link, bibtex) acc.rate: 26%

2012

Drndarevic, B., Štajner, S. and Saggion, H. 2012. Reporting Simply: A Lexical Simplification Strategy for Enhancing Text Accessibility. In Proceedings of the Easy-to-read on the Web Symposium. (pdf)

Štajner, S and Mitkov, R. 2012. Diachronic Changes in Text Complexity in 20th Century English Language: An NLP Approach. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2012. Istanbul, Turkey, May 21-27, pp. 1577-1584. (pdf, bibtex)

Štajner, S., Evans, R., Orasan, C. and Mitkov, R. 2012. What can readability measures really tell us about text complexity? In Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Improving Textual Accessibility (NLP4ITA), held in conjunction with LREC 2012. Istanbul, Turkey, May 27, pp. 14-21. (pdf, bibtex)

Štajner, S. and Mitkov, R. 2012. Using Comparable Corpora to Track Diachronic and Synchronic Changes in Lexical Density and Lexical Richness. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (5th BUCC), held in conjunction with LREC 2012. Istanbul, Turkey, May 26, pp. 88-97. (pdf, bibtex)

Štajner, S. and Mitkov, R. 2012. Style of Religious Texts in 20th Century. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Resource and Evaluation for Religious Texts (LRE-Rel), held in conjunction with LREC 2012. Istanbul, Turkey, May 23, pp. 81-87. (pdf, bibtex)

Štajner, S. 2012. NLP Methodology for Investigating Language Change. Bulletin de Linguistique Appliquée et Générale (Bulag): Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology 2011, N.36 . Presses universitaries de Franche-Comté, pp. 219-232.

2011

Štajner, S. and Mitkov, R. 2011. Diachronic Stylistic Changes in British and American Varieties of 20th Century Written English Language. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Language Technologies for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, held in conjunction with RANLP 2011. Hissar, Bulgaria, September 16, pp.78-85. (pdf, bibtex)

Štajner, S. 2011. Towards a Better Exploitation of the Brown ‘Family’ Corpora in Diachronic Studies of British and American English Language Varieties. In Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop, held in conjunction with RANLP 2011. Hissar, Bulgaria, September 13, pp. 17-24. (pdf, bibtex)