Automated Feedback Loops to Protect Text Simplification with Generative AI from Information Loss

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Main Authors: Nandiraju, Abhay Kumara Sri Krishna, Leroy, Gondy, Kauchak, David, Ahmed, Arif
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author Nandiraju, Abhay Kumara Sri Krishna
Leroy, Gondy
Kauchak, David
Ahmed, Arif
author_facet Nandiraju, Abhay Kumara Sri Krishna
Leroy, Gondy
Kauchak, David
Ahmed, Arif
contents Understanding health information is essential in achieving and maintaining a healthy life. We focus on simplifying health information for better understanding. With the availability of generative AI, the simplification process has become efficient and of reasonable quality, however, the algorithms remove information that may be crucial for comprehension. In this study, we compare generative AI to detect missing information in simplified text, evaluate its importance, and fix the text with the missing information. We collected 50 health information texts and simplified them using gpt-4-0613. We compare five approaches to identify missing elements and regenerate the text by inserting the missing elements. These five approaches involve adding missing entities and missing words in various ways: 1) adding all the missing entities, 2) adding all missing words, 3) adding the top-3 entities ranked by gpt-4-0613, and 4, 5) serving as controls for comparison, adding randomly chosen entities. We use cosine similarity and ROUGE scores to evaluate the semantic similarity and content overlap between the original, simplified, and reconstructed simplified text. We do this for both summaries and full text. Overall, we find that adding missing entities improves the text. Adding all the missing entities resulted in better text regeneration, which was better than adding the top-ranked entities or words, or random words. Current tools can identify these entities, but are not valuable in ranking them.
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spellingShingle Automated Feedback Loops to Protect Text Simplification with Generative AI from Information Loss
Nandiraju, Abhay Kumara Sri Krishna
Leroy, Gondy
Kauchak, David
Ahmed, Arif
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Understanding health information is essential in achieving and maintaining a healthy life. We focus on simplifying health information for better understanding. With the availability of generative AI, the simplification process has become efficient and of reasonable quality, however, the algorithms remove information that may be crucial for comprehension. In this study, we compare generative AI to detect missing information in simplified text, evaluate its importance, and fix the text with the missing information. We collected 50 health information texts and simplified them using gpt-4-0613. We compare five approaches to identify missing elements and regenerate the text by inserting the missing elements. These five approaches involve adding missing entities and missing words in various ways: 1) adding all the missing entities, 2) adding all missing words, 3) adding the top-3 entities ranked by gpt-4-0613, and 4, 5) serving as controls for comparison, adding randomly chosen entities. We use cosine similarity and ROUGE scores to evaluate the semantic similarity and content overlap between the original, simplified, and reconstructed simplified text. We do this for both summaries and full text. Overall, we find that adding missing entities improves the text. Adding all the missing entities resulted in better text regeneration, which was better than adding the top-ranked entities or words, or random words. Current tools can identify these entities, but are not valuable in ranking them.
title Automated Feedback Loops to Protect Text Simplification with Generative AI from Information Loss
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16172