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Lexical simplification benchmarks for English, Portuguese, and Spanish
Even in highly-developed countries, as many as 15–30% of the population can only understand texts written using a basic vocabulary. Their understanding of everyday texts is limited, which prevents them from taking an active role in society and making ...
Daniel Ferres +2 more
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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 written content.
Aqil M Azmi
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Assessing lexical and syntactic simplification in translated English with entropy analysis [PDF]
This study investigates the lexical and syntactic complexity of translated and non-translated native English texts, with a particular focus on evaluating the simplification hypothesis in translation. Drawing on entropy as a quantitative measure rooted in
Zhongliang Wang +3 more
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Does simplification hold true for machine translations? A corpus-based analysis of lexical diversity in text varieties across genres [PDF]
Extensive studies have described the linguistic features of human translations and verified the existence of the simplification translation universal. However, little has been known about the linguistic features of machine translations, although machine ...
Jiang Niu, Yue Jiang
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Creating a list of word alignments from parallel Russian simplification data
This work describes the development of a list of monolingual word alignments taken from parallel Russian simplification data. This word lists can be used in such lexical simplification tasks as rule-based simplification applications and lexically ...
Anna Dmitrieva +3 more
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This paper intends to contribute to research on the simplification hypothesis by incorporating a multi-discourse analysis. The study compares non-specialized and academic specialized discourse with the aim of describing their similarities and difference
Virginia Mattioli
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Lexical Simplification System to Improve Web Accessibility
People with intellectual, language and learning disabilities face accessibility barriers when reading texts with complex words. Following accessibility guidelines, complex words can be identified, and easy synonyms and definitions can be provided for ...
Rodrigo Alarcon +2 more
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Pattern-Based Syntactic Simplification of Compound and Complex Sentences
With the advent of new technologies, simplifying text automatically has been very popular and of high importance among natural language researchers during the last decade. The predominant research done in the area of Automatic Sentence Simplification(ASS)
Archana Praveen Kumar +4 more
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Medical reports are a fundamental text type in the life of patients, but also one of the most difficult ones to understand by non-specialists. For this reason, software tools specifically devoted to the simplification of medical texts, including reports,
Ottavia Carlino
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Deep learning approaches to lexical simplification: A survey [PDF]
Matthew Shardlow, Kai North
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