Objective Plain language in medicine has long been advocated as a way to improve patient
understanding and engagement. As the field of Natural Language Processing has …

Text simplification, defined narrowly, is the process of reducing the linguistic complexity of a
text, while still retaining the original information and meaning. More broadly, text …

The way in which a text is written can be a barrier for many people. Automatic text
simplification is a natural language processing technology that, when mature, could be used …

Sentence splitting is a major simplification operator. Here we present a simple and efficient
splitting algorithm based on an automatic semantic parser. After splitting, the text is …

This article explores the use of text simplification as a pre-processing step for statistical
machine translation of grammatically complex under-resourced languages. Our experiments …

Automatic text simplification is an active research area, and there are first systems for
English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. For German, no data-driven approach exists to …

In this paper, we present design and construction of the first Italian corpus for automatic and
semi–automatic text simplification. In line with current approaches, we propose a new …

Readability assessment can play a role in the evaluation of a simplification algorithm as well
as in the identification of what to simplify. While some previous research used traditional …

The article at hand aggregates the work of our group in automatic processing of simplified
German. We present four parallel (standard/simplified German) corpora compiled and …

In this paper, we present an overview of existing parallel corpora for Automatic Text
Simplification (ATS) in different languages focusing on the approach adopted for their …