CORPUS

• Corpus CLARA-MeD: A collection of 24 298 pairs of professional and simplified texts (>96 million tokens) for automatic medical text simplification in Spanish. A parallel corpus with a subset of 3800 sentence pairs of professional and laymen variants (149 862 tokens) is released as a benchmark for medical text simplification. https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/269887
  If you use this corpus, please, cite as follows:
  Campillos-Llanos, Leonardo, Ana Rosa Terroba Reinares, Sofía Zakhir Puig, Ana Valverde-Mateos, and Adrián Capllonch-Carrión (2022) Building a comparable corpus and a benchmark for Spanish medical text simplification. Procesamiento del lenguaje natural, nº 69, pp. 189-196. → This article describes the process and criteria to simplify the technical sentences in two versions: at the syntax level, and both at the syntax and lexical levels.
• A new collection of sentences simplified by experts is released at this address: https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/346579. If you use this dataset, please, cite as follows:
  Campillos-Llanos, Leonardo, Ana Rosa Terroba Reinares, Rocío Bartolomé Rodríguez (2024) Enhancing the understanding of clinical trials with a sentence-level simplification dataset. Procesamiento del lenguaje natural, nº 72, pp. 31-43. → This article describes the process and criteria to simplify the technical sentences in two versions: at the syntax level, and both at the syntax and lexical levels.

LEXICON

• SimpMedLexSp: a lexicon of technical and laymen medical terms. Sample file available here.
  
  If you use this resource, please, cite it as follows:
  Campillos-Llanos, Leonardo, Ana Rosa Terroba-Reinares, Rocío Bartolomé, Ana Valverde-Mateos, Cristina González, Adrián Capllonch, Jónathan Heras (2024) Replace, Paraphrase or Fine-tune? Evaluating Automatic Simplification for Medical Texts in Spanish. Proc. of LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, Italy, May 2024; pp. 13929–13945.

DEMO

• CLARA-MeD tool: a system to help readers understand medical texts. Try it here!
  If you use this tool, please, cite it as follows: Campillos-Llanos, Leonardo, Federico Ortega-Riba, Ana Rosa Terroba-Reinares, Ana Valverde-Mateos, Adrián Capllonch-Carrión (2024) CLARA-MeD Tool – A System to Help Patients Understand Clinical Trial Announcements and Consent Forms in Spanish. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 316, 95 – 99.

OTHER

• Readability score analysis: compute the Inflesz score of technical and simplified sentences (Python script).
• Frequency-based complex word identification (Python script).
• Embedding-based sentence aligner (Python script): given a comparable corpus of technical and simplified sentences, obtain aligned parallel sentences.
• Trained neural-based and prompt-learning-based models for simplification are available at the CLARA-MeD HuggingFace repository.
• N-grams from the CLARA-MeD corpus: 2-grams, 3-grams and 4-grams extracted from:
  
  • Texts in technical register (source)
  • Texts in simplified register (target)

  Files available at this address.