Automatic text simplification is a crucial task enabling to reduce text complexity while preserving meaning. This paper presents our solution to the Russian Sentence Simplification Shared Task (RSSE) based on a backtranslation technique. We show that applying the simple back-translation approach for sentence simplification can give competitive results with the other methods without fine-tuning or training.
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