People with intellectual, language and learning disabilities face accessibility barriers when
reading texts with complex words. Following accessibility guidelines, complex words can be …

We present experiments on biomedical text simplification in French. We use two kinds of
corpora–parallel sentences extracted from existing health comparable corpora in French …

Lexical simplification systems rely heavily on handcrafted databases or parallel corpora
which represents a high cost of production. In this paper we present alternatives for every …

Text complexity is the level of difficulty of the document for understanding by the target
readers. One common type of this text complexity is Lexical complexity which can cause …

Cognitive impairments in text reading and understanding not only affect individuals with
intellectual disabilities but also deaf and deaf-blind ones, the illiterate, and immigrants …

Text simplification, crucial in natural language processing, aims to make texts more
comprehensible, particularly for specific groups like visually impaired Spanish speakers, a …

The Internet has come a long way in recent years, contributing to the proliferation of large
volumes of digitally available information. Through user interfaces we can access these …

For normally sighted readers, word neighborhood size (ie, the total number of words that can
be formed from a single word by changing only one letter) has a facilitator effect on word …

This paper presents an overview of the CLEF 2022 SimpleText track's Task 1, asking
systems to retrieve scientific abstracts in response to a query prompted by a popular science …

Medical literature is a great source of validated and recent information available through
many resources, such as the Internet. Yet, the complex terminology poses a challenge in …