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Universal Access in the Information Society
Erschienen in: Universal Access in the Information Society 1/2017

06.08.2015 | Long paper

An approach to treat numerical information in the text simplification process

verfasst von: Susana Bautista, Raquel Hervás, Pablo Gervás, Javier Rojo

Erschienen in: Universal Access in the Information Society | Ausgabe 1/2017

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Abstract

Public information services and documents should be accessible to the widest possible readership. In particular, information from these sources often takes the form of numerical expressions, which pose comprehension problems for many people, including people with disabilities, who are often also exposed to poverty, illiteracy, or lack of access to advanced technology. This paper presents an approach to treat numerical information in the text simplification process to make it more accessible. A generic model for automatic text simplification systems is presented, aimed at making documents more accessible to readers with cognitive disabilities. The proposed approach is validated with a real system to simplify numerical expressions in Spanish. This system is then evaluated and the results show that it is appropriate for the task at hand.
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15
The actual instances described here as examples have been developed as plug-ins for GATE to take advantage of existing NLP tools.
 
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The 15 pairs of sentences are presented in the “Appendix” at the end of the paper.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
An approach to treat numerical information in the text simplification process
verfasst von
Susana Bautista
Raquel Hervás
Pablo Gervás
Javier Rojo
Publikationsdatum
06.08.2015
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Universal Access in the Information Society / Ausgabe 1/2017
Print ISSN: 1615-5289
Elektronische ISSN: 1615-5297
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-015-0426-z

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