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FactPICO: Factuality Evaluation for Plain Language Summarization of Medical Evidence
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational LinguisticsPlain language summarization with LLMs can be useful for improving textual accessibility of technical content. But how factual are these summaries in a high-stakes domain like medicine?
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2018
At the conclusion of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture, and Media, editors Bree Hadley and Donna McDonald offer a plain language summary of the concepts and arguments in each chapter in the collection, to invite the widest community possible into the conversations that unfold in the book.
Hadley, Bree, McDonald, Donna
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At the conclusion of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture, and Media, editors Bree Hadley and Donna McDonald offer a plain language summary of the concepts and arguments in each chapter in the collection, to invite the widest community possible into the conversations that unfold in the book.
Hadley, Bree, McDonald, Donna
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The Rise of Plain Language Laws
Social Science Research Network, 2021When lawmakers enacted 778 plain language laws across the United States, no one noticed. Apart from a handful, these laws went untracked and unstudied. Without study, large questions remain about these laws’ effects and utility, and about how they inform
Michael Blasie
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The Social Justice Impact of Plain Language: A Critical Approach to Plain-Language Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 2017Introduction: This study investigates how plain language, examined from a social justice perspective, is implemented in mortgage documents and what the implications are for African-American homebuyers. About the case: We argue that plain language has the potential to engage issues of human dignity and human rights because language accessibility in ...
Natasha N. Jones, Miriam F. Williams
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Commonwealth Law Bulletin, 2013
Producing law which is clear and easily accessible to the reader is a priority for the drafter. Thus, the use of plain language is one key issue which can help to improve clarity in drafting law. It can make the law much easier to understand and can maintain good standards.
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Producing law which is clear and easily accessible to the reader is a priority for the drafter. Thus, the use of plain language is one key issue which can help to improve clarity in drafting law. It can make the law much easier to understand and can maintain good standards.
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Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2013
Metonymy—the process of representing a concept with an associated element or feature—is a useful strategy for encapsulating or alluding to a larger idea without fully stating it. For metonymies to be successful, however, readers must recognize and be able to compensate for the information that has been omitted.
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Metonymy—the process of representing a concept with an associated element or feature—is a useful strategy for encapsulating or alluding to a larger idea without fully stating it. For metonymies to be successful, however, readers must recognize and be able to compensate for the information that has been omitted.
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Plain Language in the Twenty-First Century: Introduction to the Special Issue on Plain Language
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 2017Documentation for consumers is frequently complex, convoluted, and hard to follow. Bureaucratic organizations such as insurance companies, government agencies, hospitals, and law firms often have reputations for communicating poorly. Such poorly prepared documents diminish consumers’ abilities to make informed decisions about their health, rights, and ...
Natalya Matveeva +2 more
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Exploring plain language guidelines
2009 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, 2009Based on the last National Assessment of Adult Literacy survey (2003) conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Educational Statistics, an estimated 43% (93 million) of the U.S. adults age 16 and older has below or basic literacy skills . Many government agencies adopt a policy of using plain language guidelines when preparing
Raquel Harper, Donald E. Zimmerman
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2012
AbstractA discipline that might eventually become known as ‘plain language studies’ is beginning to emerge through the collaboration of individual plain language proponents (plainers for short). In 2008, the two main international umbrella organizations (Clarity and PLAIN) and the Center for Plain Language in the United States set up a joint working ...
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AbstractA discipline that might eventually become known as ‘plain language studies’ is beginning to emerge through the collaboration of individual plain language proponents (plainers for short). In 2008, the two main international umbrella organizations (Clarity and PLAIN) and the Center for Plain Language in the United States set up a joint working ...
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Putting physics in plain language
Physics World, 2019Cynthia (Thia) Keppel received the American Physical Society’s Distinguished Lectureship Award on the Applications of Physics in 2019 for her pioneering work in proton therapy and for promoting applications of physics to experts and non-experts.
Cynthia Thia Keppel, Margaret Harris
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