1. Text simplification resources for Spanish.
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Bott, Stefan and Saggion, Horacio
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SPANISH language ,COGNITIVE ability ,MONOLINGUALISM ,CORPORA ,NATURAL language processing ,SYNTAX (Grammar) - Abstract
In this paper we present the development of a text simplification system for Spanish. Text simplification is the adaptation of a text for the special needs of certain groups of readers, such as language learners, people with cognitive difficulties, and elderly people, among others. There is a clear need for simplified texts, but manual production and adaptation of existing text is labour-intensive and costly. Automatic simplification is a field which attracts growing attention in Natural Language Processing, but, to the best of our knowledge, there are no existing simplification tools for Spanish. We present a corpus study which aims to identify the operations a text simplification system needs to carry out in order to produce an output similar to what human editors produce when they simplify news texts. We also present a first prototype for automatic simplification, which shows that the most important simplification operations can be successfully treated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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