In this paper we present the results of a study directed towards developing a lexical simplification module of an automatic simplification system for Spanish, intended for readers with cognitive disabilities. We here observe the word length and frequency distribution of two sets of texts that make up our parallel corpus, and we focus on cases of information expansion (through the insertion of d...

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 annotation scheme specifically conceived to identify the typology of changes an original sentence undergoes when it is manually simplified. Such a scheme has been applied to two aligned Italian corpora, containing o...

Knowledge Sharing portals are the primary gateways for users to access all the information they need for their activity with adequate safety, security and in the best quality. The usability of a Knowledge Sharing Portal plays an important role in every organization and higher learning institutions, as it helps to increase the user satisfaction, reuse of knowledge assets, consistency of informat...

We present a rule based automatic text simplification tool for Swedish. The tool is designed to facilitate experimentation with various simplification techniques. The architecture of the tool is inspired by and partly built on a previous text simplification tool for Swedish, CogFLUX. New functionality, new operation types, and new simplification operations were added.

Newswire text is often linguistically complex and stylistically decorated, hence very difficult to comprehend for people with reading disabilities. Acknowledging that events represent the most important information in news, we propose an eventcentered approach to news simplification. Our method relies on robust extraction of factual events and elimination of surplus information which is not par...

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 two parallel corpora of original and manually simplified texts for two different types of users and then conduct two classification experiments: classifying between those sentences to be deleted and those to be k...

Lexical complexity plays a central role in readability, particularly for dyslexic children and poor readers because of their slow and laborious decoding and word recognition skills. Although some features to aid readability may be common to many languages (e.g., the majority of ’easy’ words are of low frequency), we believe that lexical complexity is mainly language-specific. In this paper, we ...

A syntactically complex text may represent a problem for both comprehension by humans and various NLP tasks. A large number of studies in text simplification are concerned with this problem and their aim is to transform the given text into a simplified form in order to make it accessible to the wider audience. In this study, we were investigating what the natural tendency of texts is in 20th ce...

One of important issues in the field of implication and aggression is        "منصوب به نزع خافض". It is an idiom related to  مفعول به "”. By referring to its definition, a syntactic-semantic analysis will be done in this paper. It tries to indicate what is the relationship between word and meaning and to what extent Arabic syntax focu...