Readability

An important component of any generation system is the mapping dictionary, a lexicon of elementary semantic expressions and cor- responding natural language realizations. Typically, labor-intensive knowledge-based methods are used to …...

AbstractThis paper introduces the Multilingual Information Service System being implemented for the Beijing Olympics. Multilingual machine translation is an important component in this system. This real world application asks for …...

We combine lexical, syntactic, and discourse features to produce a highly predictive model of human readers’ judgments of text readabil- ity. This is the first study to take into ac- …...

We present a novel unsupervised sentence fu- sion method which we apply to a corpus of bi- ographies in German. Given a group of related sentences, we align their dependency …...

We investigate linguistic features that correlate with the readability of texts for adults with in- tellectual disabilities (ID). Based on a corpus of texts (including some experimentally meas- ured for …...

In this paper, we propose an unsupervised approach to automatically synthesize Wikipedia articles in multiple languages. Taking an existing high-quality version of any entry as content guideline, we extract keywords …...

AbstractWe present DSim, a new sentence aligned Danish monolingual parallel corpus extracted from 3701 pairs of news telegrams and corresponding professionally simplified short news articles. The corpus is intended for …...

We report on an experiment to test the ef- ficacy of ‘controlled language’ authoring of technical documents in Japanese, with respect both to the readability of the Jap- anese source …...

Generation System for Social Scientific Papers Michio Kaneko Dongli Han Graduate School of Integrated Basic Sciences Department of Information Science, Nihon University, Tokyo, JAPAN College of Humanities and Sciences m-kaneko@chs.nihon-u.ac.jp …...

. This paper presents a set of experiments aiming to (1) assess the contribution of NLP to the specific issue of the readability of texts for French as a foreign …...

AbstractIn this paper we present the evaluation of our automatic methods for detecting and extracting document structure in annual financial reports. The work presented is part of the Corporate Financial …...

Readability is used to provide users with high- quality service in text recommendation or text visualization. With the increasing use of hand- held devices, reading device is regarded as an …...

AbstractWe present LQVSumm, a corpus of about 2000 automatically created extractive multi-document summaries from the TAC 2011 shared task on Guided Summarization, which we annotated with several types of linguistic …...

Feature-Rich Space Carlos A. Colmenares∗ Google Inc. Brandschenkestrasse 110 8002 Zurich, Switzerland crcarlos@google.com Marina Litvak Shamoon College of Engineering Beer Sheva, Israel marinal@sce.ac.il Amin Mantrach Fabrizio Silvestri Yahoo Labs. Avinguda …...

In this paper we investigate how readabil- ity varies between texts originally writ- ten in English and texts translated into English. For quantification, we analyze several factors that are relevant …...

We present an LSTM approach to deletion-based sentence compression where the task is to translate a sentence into a sequence of zeros and ones, cor- responding to token deletion decisions. …...

AbstractOnline discussion forums and community question-answering websites provide one of the primary avenues for online users to share information. In this paper, we propose text mining techniques which aid users …...

AbstractKnowing the quality of reading comprehension (RC) datasets is important for the development of natural-language understanding systems. In this study, two classes of metrics were adopted for evaluating RC datasets: …...

Today’s machine translation systems out- put the same translation for a given in- put, despite important differences between users. In practice, translations should be customized for each reader, for instance …...

AbstractThe success of authorship attribution relies on the presence of linguistic features specific to individual authors. There is, however, limited research assessing to what extent authorial style remains constant when …...

AbstractJudging the readability of text has many important applications, for instance when performing text simplification or when sourcing reading material for language learners. In this paper, we present a 518 …...

AbstractLay summarisation aims to jointly summarise and simplify a given text, thus making its content more comprehensible to non-experts. Automatic approaches for lay summarisation can provide significant value in broadening …...

AbstractThere is a growing interest in the combined use of NLP and machine learning methods to predict gaze patterns during naturalistic reading. While promising results have been obtained through the …...

AbstractThis project investigates the capabilities of Machine Translation models for generating translations at varying levels of readability, focusing on texts related to COVID-19. Whilst it is possible to automatically translate …...