Simplified texts are commonly used by teachers and students in bilingual education and other language-learning contexts. These texts are usually manually adapted, and teachers say this is a timeconsuming and sometimes challenging task. Our goal is the development of tools to aid teachers by automatically proposing ways to simplify texts. As a first step, this paper presents a detailed analysis of a corpus of news articles and abridged versions written by a literacy organization in order to learn what kinds of changes people make when simplifying texts for language learners.
Cite as: Petersen, S.E., Ostendorf, M. (2007) Text simplification for language learners: a corpus analysis. Proc. Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2007), 69-72
@inproceedings{petersen07_slate,
author={Sarah E. Petersen and Mari Ostendorf},
title={{Text simplification for language learners: a corpus analysis}},
year=2007,
booktitle={Proc. Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2007)},
pages={69--72}
}