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Proceedings of the Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Methods and Applications, 2021 Many organizations seek or need to produce documents that are written plainly. In the United States, the “Plain Writing Act of 2010” requires that many federal agencies’ documents for the public are written in plain English. In particular, the government’s Plain Language Action and Information Network (“PLAIN”) recommends that writers use short ...
Yohei Igarashi, Allen Riddell
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Putting plain language summaries into perspective
Current Medical Research and Opinion, 2022 Publication-associated plain language summaries are brief, jargon-free summaries of scientific publications. They are intended for a broad, non-expert audience to help maximize the accessibility of the publication.
C. Edgell, A. Rosenberg
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An appraisal of plain language in the South African banking sector
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2016 The Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 (CPA) came into full force in April 2011. An important corollary of this Act, and the National Credit Act 34 of 2005, is the obligation that consumer documents must be in plain language.
Cornelius, Eleanor
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Patient, 2022 Background Plain language summaries (PLSs) are intended for a non-expert audience in order to make health research accessible and understandable to the public.
Karen M. Gainey +4 more
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ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE PLAIN SWEDISH MOVEMENT FROM THE POLISH PERSPECTIVE
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2009 The paper deals with the plain language movement in Sweden from the Polish perspective. Plain Swedish is endorsed by law as an objective of state policy and there is a state body responsible for the quality of public language.
Milena HADRYAN
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Changing with the Times: The Evolution of Plain Language in the Legal Sphere
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2015 As is well known, the Plain language movement has been influential in a number of areas of public life over the last few decades. Within the legal sphere it has raised general awareness concerning the need to make legal matters and legal documents more ...
Williams, Christopher
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Canadian Medical Education Journal, 2018 This brief report aims to highlight the impact of globalization – the international movement of goods, people, and ideas – on patient-provider communication in medical training and practice, and how the implementation of plain language communication ...
Fiona Warde +5 more
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Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, 2022 Plain language summary What is this summary about? This is a plain language summary of the STEP TEENS research study, which was originally published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
D. Weghuber +5 more
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A Participatory Framework for Plain Language Clinical Management Guideline Development
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 Background: Clinical management guidelines (CMGs) are decision support tools for patient care used by professionals, patients, and family caregivers. Since clinical experts develop numerous CMGs, their technical language hinders comprehension and access ...
R. Francisco +14 more
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Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Biologie - Biologie Lehren und Lernen, 2020 Biologische Unterrichtstexte können insbesondere für Schüler/-innen mit Migrationshintergrund einige Sprachbarrieren ent-halten, die zu einem geringeren Verständnis der Fachinhalte beitragen können.
Melanie Schaller +2 more
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