Automatic Text Simplification for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Chen, Ping ; Rochford, John ; Kennedy, David N ; Djamasbi, Soussan ; Fay, Peter ; Scott, Will
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Text simplification (TS) aims to reduce the lexical and structural complexity of a text, while still retaining the semantic meaning. Current automatic TS techniques are limited to either lexical-level applications or manually defining a large amount of rules. In this paper, we propose to simplify text from both level of lexicons and sentences. We conduct preliminary experiments to find that our approach shows promising results.
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Chen, P., Rochford, J., Kennedy, D. N., Djamasbi, S., Fay, P., & Scott, W. (2017). Automatic Text Simplification for People with Intellectual Disabilities. In 2016 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology (AIST2016) (pp. 725–731). DOI: 10.1142/9789813206823_0091. Link to publisher website