2016
COLING
COLING 2016
A Customizable Editor for Text Simplification
Abstract
AbstractWe present a browser-based editor for simplifying English text. Given an input sentence, the editor performs both syntactic and lexical simplification. It splits a complex sentence into shorter ones, and suggests word substitutions in drop-down lists. The user can choose the best substitution from the list, undo any inappropriate splitting, and further edit the sentence as necessary. A significant novelty is that the system accepts a customized vocabulary list for a target reader population. It identifies all words in the text that do not belong to the list, and attempts to substitute them with words from the list, thus producing a text tailored for the targeted readers.
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Keyword Pioneer
— sentence splitting
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Hot Topic Early Bird
— text simplification
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Cross-Pollinator
— Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning