Simplify or help? Text simplification strategies for people with dyslexia

L Rello, R Baeza-Yates, S Bott, H Saggion - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
We present a user study for two different automatic strategies that simplify text content for
people with dyslexia. The strategies considered are the standard one (replacing a complex …

[BUCH][B] Automatic text simplification

H Saggion, G Hirst - 2017 - Springer
Automatic text simplification is a research field in computational linguistics that studies
methods and techniques to simplify textual content. Text simplification methods should …

Lexical simplification with pretrained encoders

J Qiang, Y Li, Y Zhu, Y Yuan, X Wu - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2020 - aaai.org
Lexical simplification (LS) aims to replace complex words in a given sentence with their
simpler alternatives of equivalent meaning. Recently unsupervised lexical simplification …

Making it simplext: Implementation and evaluation of a text simplification system for spanish

H Saggion, S Štajner, S Bott, S Mille, L Rello… - ACM Transactions on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Can spanish be simpler? lexsis: Lexical simplification for spanish

S Bott, L Rello, B Drndarević… - Proceedings of COLING …, 2012 - aclanthology.org
Lexical simplification is the task of replacing a word in a given context by an easier-to-
understand synonym. Although a number of lexical simplification approaches have been …

Linguistically-based comparison of different approaches to building corpora for text simplification: A case study on italian

D Brunato, F Dell'Orletta, G Venturi - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Corpus-based sentence deletion and split decisions for Spanish text simplification

S Štajner, B Drndarevic, H Saggion - Computación y Sistemas, 2013 - 148.204.65.169
This study addresses the automatic simplification of texts in Spanish in order to make them
more accessible to people with cognitive disabilities. A corpus analysis of original and …

Simplifying words in context. Experiments with two lexical resources in Spanish

H Saggion, S Bott, L Rello - Computer Speech & Language, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper we study the effect of different lexical resources for selecting synonyms and
strategies for word sense disambiguation in a lexical simplification system for the Spanish …

Comparing resources for Spanish lexical simplification

H Saggion, S Bott, L Rello - … , SLSP 2013, Tarragona, Spain, July 29-31 …, 2013 - Springer
In this paper we study the effect of different lexical resources and strategies for selecting
synonyms in a lexical simplification system for the Spanish language. The resources used …

Adapting text simplification decisions to different text genres and target users

S Štajner, H Saggion - 2013 - rua.ua.es
We investigate sentence deletion and split decisions in Spanish text simplification for two
different corpora aimed at different groups of users. We analyse sentence transformations in …