• DocumentCode
    3078742
  • Title

    As Simple as It Gets - A Sentence Simplifier for Different Learning Levels and Contexts

  • Author

    Pereira Nunes, Bernardo ; Kawase, Ricardo ; Siehndel, Patrick ; Casanova, Marco A. ; Dietze, Stefan

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf., PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    15-18 July 2013
  • Firstpage
    128
  • Lastpage
    132
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a text simplification method that transforms complex sentences into simplified forms. Our method uses NLP-techniques to simplify the text based on the target audience context, improving its overall understandability. We evaluate our approach in two aspects: grammatical structure and understandability. In both aspects, our approach achieved good results, showing its applicability to the learning process.
  • Keywords
    computer aided instruction; natural language processing; text analysis; NLP technique; audience understandability; grammatical structure aspect; grammatical understandability aspect; learning context; learning level; learning process; natural language processing; sentence simplifier; text simplification method; Conferences; Context; Encyclopedias; Search engines; Tagging; Vocabulary; natural language processing; search engine knowledge; text simplification;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICALT.2013.42
  • Filename
    6601885