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Plain language in web questionnaires: effects on data quality and questionnaire evaluation

International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2023
In web surveys, no interviewer is present to clarify question comprehension problems, which can be particularly prevalent among respondents with low literacy skills.
Irina Bauer, Tanja Kunz, Tobias Gummer
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Skilur almenningur íslenskt lagamál?

Orð og Tunga, 2022
Text comprehension of Icelandic legislative texts was studied qualitatively by interviewing 46 Icelandic speakers individually. The participants read parts of the Icelandic Inheritance Act no. 8/1962 and of the Icelandic Children’s Act no.
Ari Páll Kristinsson, Birgitta Guðmundsdóttir, Olga M. Cilia, Sigrún Steingrímsdóttir   +3 more
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Plain Language Summary on The European Union One Health 2022 Zoonoses Report

EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority, 2023
This publication is linked to the following EFSA Journal article: https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2023 ...
Luisa De Almeida, Florentino Correia, M. Hempen, W. Messens, S. Antoniou, Francesca Baldinelli, A. Broglia, L. Kohnle, Lina Mur, Taina Niskanen, Mohammed Afzal, Tamas Bakonyi, Veronica Cristea, Istituto Superiore, Di Sanita, Gaia Scavia, Ilaria Altieri, Fabrizio Anniballi, Pierfrancesco Barbariol, A. Bella, Simone Cacciò, Adriano Casulli, Alessandra Ciervo, E. Delibato, M. Dente, Michele Luca D'Errico, Aurora Garcia, Maria Angeles Fernandez, Francesca Gomez Morales, Federico Iacoponi, Marco Giannoni, Claudia Lalle, C. Lucarelli, Stefano Marianelli, Marco Francesco Morabito, Ortoffi Flavia, Elisabetta Riccardo, Rosangela Suffredini, Eleonora Tozzoli, Ventola Laura, V. Istituto, Zooprofilattico delle Venezie Giorgia, Lisa Angeloni, Grazia Barco, Aurora Manca, Katia Boscolo, Capello Giulia, Laura Cento, Paola Ciot, Laura De Benedictis, Annie Gagliazzo, Elena Ishebabi, Monica Lazzaro, Marzia Lorenzetto, Claudio Mancin, Angelo Mantovani, Martina Sardella, Simonato Marica, Toson Istituto, Zooprofilattico Sperimentale, dell'Abruzzo, del Molise, ‘G. Caporale’, P. Calistri, Marta Cresci, Enrico De Albentiis, G. Garofolo, Diana Palma, F. Massis, F. Pomilio, A. Bonanni, Susanna Tora, A. D. Lorenzo, Mauro Ferella, Andrea De Ruvo, R. Lucchini, Annamaria Conte, Istituto Zooprofilattico, Sperimentale della Lombardia, '. EmiliaRomagna, B. U. Maria, Beatrice Boniotti, Nadia Vicari, Silvia Bellini, Gabriele Casadei, A. Asséré, Christophe Cordevant, Aurélie Couesnon, R. Blaga, F. Cliquet, Corinne Danan, Nolwenn Dheilly, L. Freddi, Gaëlle Gonzalez, C. Ponsart, Dana Pottratz, E. Robardet, Elodie Rousset, Isabelle Vallée   +98 more
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LEX.CH.IT: A Corpus for Micro-Diachronic Linguistic Investigations of Swiss Normative Acts in Italian

Comparative Legilinguistics, 2019
The aim of this paper is to present LEX.CH.IT, a corpus for micro-diachronic linguistic investigations of Swiss normative acts in Italian. Italian has a peculiar position as an official minority translation language within the Swiss institutional system.
Canavese Paolo
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HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders

South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2011
HIV infection is associated with disturbances in brain function referred to as HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND). This literature review outlines the recently revised diagnostic criteria for the range of HAND from the earliest to the more ...
Zahir Vally
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Know Your Audience: The benefits and pitfalls of generating plain language summaries beyond the "general" audience [PDF]

International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Language models (LMs) show promise as tools for communicating science to the general public by simplifying and summarizing complex language. Because models can be prompted to generate text for a specific audience (e.g., college-educated adults), LMs ...
Tal August, Kyle Lo, Noah A. Smith, Katharina Reinecke   +3 more
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A practical ‘How-To’ Guide to plain language summaries (PLS) of peer-reviewed scientific publications: results of a multi-stakeholder initiative utilizing co-creation methodology

Research Involvement and Engagement, 2022
Background Peer-reviewed scientific publications and congress abstracts are typically written by scientists for specialist audiences; however, patients and other non-specialists are understandably interested in the potential implications of research and ...
Laura Dormer, T. Schindler, Lauri Arnstein Williams, D. Lobban, Sheila Khawaja, Amanda Hunn, Daniela Lorena Luzuriaga Ubilla, I. Sargeant, A. Hamoir   +8 more
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Pratiques de rédaction claire de rédacteurs fonctionnels en Belgique francophone

Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 2022
Dans les administrations belges francophones, on retrouve surtout des rédacteurs fonctionnels, c’est-à-dire des rédacteurs n’ayant pas suivi de formation en rédaction professionnelle, et qui réalisent des tâches de rédaction de façon occasionnelle.
Adeline Müller, Thomas François
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Defining 'plain language' in contemporary South Africa

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2015
Defining the concept ‘plain language’ has been hugely problematic since the origins of the so-called Plain Language Movement in the 1970s in the United States and elsewhere in the world.
Eleanor Cornelius
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Risks of Using “Language Relief” and Plain Language Principles in the Process of Applying Tax Law – Selected Issues

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2021
The level of communicativeness of official letters in the field of tax law leaves much to be desired. The article concerns the consequences of the application of “Language Relief” in the practice of applying tax law by the National Revenue Administration.
Woltanowski Piotr
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