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ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2011)Venice, Italy |
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ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2011)Venice, Italy |
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Most work on automatic text simplification considers lexical
difficulty separate from syntactic simplification. In this study,
we use both factors together to predict a variety of sentence
changes, including the standard problems of splitting and shortening,
as well as expanding to define difficult words that are important
to the topic. We leverage a variety of lexical and parse
features, as well as a score of the relatedness of a sentence to
the topic of its document.
Index Terms. text simplification, parse complexity
Bibliographic reference. Medero, Julie / Ostendorf, Mari (2011): "Identifying targets for syntactic simplification", In SLaTE-2011, 69-72.