Measuring text simplification with the crowd
Walter S. Lasecki, Luz Rello, Jeffrey P. Bigham · 2015
Text can often be complex and difficult to read, especially for people with cognitive impairments or low literacy skills. Text simplification is a process that reduces the complexity of both wording and structure in a sentence, while retaining its meaning. However, this is currently a challenging task for machines, and thus, providing effective on-demand text simplification to those who need it remains an unsolved problem. Even evaluating the simplicity of text remains a challenging problem for both computers, which cannot understand the meaning of text, and humans, who often struggle to agree on what constitutes a good simplification.