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 …

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 …

In this paper we examine the task of sentence simplification which aims to reduce the
reading complexity of a sentence by incorporating more accessible vocabulary and …

Automatic text simplification is a research field in computational linguistics that studies
methods and techniques to simplify textual content. Text simplification methods should …

Health literacy has emerged as a crucial factor in making appropriate health decisions and
ensuring treatment outcomes. However, medical jargon and the complex structure of …

The goal in this paper is to automatically transform text into a simpler text, so that it is easier
to understand by children. We perform syntactic simplification, ie the splitting of sentences …

We present a method for lexical simplification. Simplification rules are learned from a
comparable corpus, and the rules are applied in a context-aware fashion to input sentences …

The complex linguistic structures and specialized terminology of expert-authored content
limit the accessibility of biomedical literature to the general public. Automated methods have …

Availability of corpora with technical and simplified contents is crucial for the development
and test of methods for text simplification. We describe this kind of corpus for the French …

The purpose of automatic text simplification is to adapt the content of documents in order to
make them easier to understand by a given population or to improve the performance of …