Problems in current text simplification research: New data can help

W Xu, C Callison-Burch, C Napoles - Transactions of the Association …, 2015 - direct.mit.edu
Simple Wikipedia has dominated simplification research in the past 5 years. In this opinion
paper, we argue that focusing on Wikipedia limits simplification research. We back up our …

[PDF][PDF] A survey of automated text simplification

M Shardlow - … Journal of Advanced Computer Science and …, 2014 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Text simplification modifies syntax and lexicon to improve the understandability of language
for an end user. This survey identifies and classifies simplification research within the period …

[HTML][HTML] Simplification of Arabic text: A hybrid approach integrating machine translation and transformer-based lexical model

SS Al-Thanyyan, AM Azmi - Journal of King Saud University-Computer and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The process of text simplification (TS) is crucial for enhancing the comprehension of written
material, especially for people with low literacy levels and those who struggle to understand …

NILC-Metrix: assessing the complexity of written and spoken language in Brazilian Portuguese

SE Leal, MS Duran, CE Scarton, NS Hartmann… - Language Resources …, 2024 - Springer
The objective of this paper is to present and make publicly available the NILC-Metrix, a
computational system comprising 200 metrics proposed in studies on discourse …

Measuring the impact of readability features in fake news detection

R Santos, G Pedro, S Leal, O Vale… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
The proliferation of fake news is a current issue that influences a number of important areas
of society, such as politics, economy and health. In the Natural Language Processing area …

[HTML][HTML] Text simplification to specific readability levels

W Alkaldi, D Inkpen - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The ability to read a document depends on the reader's skills and the text's readability level.
In this paper, we propose a system that uses deep learning techniques to simplify texts in …

[HTML][HTML] First steps in the development of a support application for easy-to-read adaptation

MC Suárez-Figueroa, I Diab, E Ruckhaus… - Universal Access in the …, 2024 - Springer
The application of the easy-to-read (E2R) methodology is one of the ways to achieve
cognitive accessibility and specifically, it is a path that guarantees the right of access to …

AMesure: a Web platform to assist the clear writing of administrative texts

T François, A Müller, E Rolin… - … of the 1st Conference of the …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
This article presents the AMesure platform, which aims to assist writers of French
administrative texts in simplifying their writing. This platform includes a readability formula …

Towards arabic sentence simplification via classification and generative approaches

N Khallaf, S Sharoff - arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.09292, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper presents an attempt to build a Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) sentence-level
simplification system. We experimented with sentence simplification using two …

[PDF][PDF] Event-centered simplification of news stories

G Glavaš, S Štajner - Proceedings of the Student Research …, 2013 - aclanthology.org
Newswire text is often linguistically complex and stylistically decorated, hence very difficult to
comprehend for people with reading disabilities. Acknowledging that events represent the …