Problems in current text simplification research: New data can help

W Xu, C Callison-Burch, C Napoles - Transactions of the Association …, 2015 - direct.mit.edu
Simple Wikipedia has dominated simplification research in the past 5 years. In this opinion
paper, we argue that focusing on Wikipedia limits simplification research. We back up our …

Text simplification by tagging

K Omelianchuk, V Raheja, O Skurzhanskyi - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Edit-based approaches have recently shown promising results on multiple monolingual
sequence transduction tasks. In contrast to conventional sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) …

Facilita: reading assistance for low-literacy readers

WM Watanabe, AC Junior, VR Uzêda… - Proceedings of the 27th …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Texts are the media content primarily available on Web sites and applications. However, this
heavy use of texts creates an accessibility barrier to those who cannot read fluently in their …

Syntactic sentence simplification for French

L Brouwers, D Bernhard, AL Ligozat… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2014 - hal.science
This paper presents a method for the syntactic simplification of French texts. Syntactic
simplification aims at making texts easier to understand by simplifying complex syntactic …

Collaborative augmentation and simplification of text (CoAST): Pedagogical applications of natural language processing in digital learning environments

M Shardlow, S Sellar, D Rousell - Learning Environments Research, 2022 - Springer
The digitisation of higher education is raising significant questions about the impact of
artificial intelligence and automation on teaching and learning environments, highlighting …

When the ball stops, the fun stops too: The impact of social inclusion on video game enjoyment

ND Bowman, R Kowert, E Cohen - Computers in Human Behavior, 2015 - Elsevier
Video games have long been understood as an entertaining and popular medium, and
recent work has suggested that at least part of their appeal rests in their ability to foster …

Artist: Artificial intelligence for simplified text

L Corti, J Yang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2308.13458, 2023 - arxiv.org
Complex text is a major barrier for many citizens when accessing public information and
knowledge. While often done manually, Text Simplification is a key Natural Language …

[PDF][PDF] A Hybrid Personalized Text Simplification Framework Leveraging the Deep Learningbased Transformer Model for Dyslexic Students

SA Sukiman, NA Husin, H Hamdan… - Journal of Advanced …, 2024 - academia.edu
This study proposes a hybrid personalized text simplification framework leveraging the deep
learning-based Transformer model to generate simplified expository texts by addressing all …

Measuring text simplification with the crowd

WS Lasecki, L Rello, JP Bigham - … of the 12th International Web for All …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Text can often be complex and difficult to read, especially for people with cognitive
impairments or low literacy skills. Text simplification is a process that reduces the complexity …

A lexical simplification tool for promoting health literacy

L Zilio, LB Paraguassu… - 1st Workshop on …, 2020 - openresearch.surrey.ac.uk
This paper presents MedSimples, an authoring tool that combines Natural Language
Processing, Corpus Linguistics and Terminology to help writers to convert health-related …