Making historical texts accessible to everybody
Cristina Vertan, Walther von Hahn · 2014
hamburg.de In this paper we discuss the degree of readability of historical texts for a broad public. We argue that text simplification methods can improve significantly this aspect and bring an added value to historical texts. We present a specific example, a genuine multilingual historical texts, which should be available at least to researchers from different fields and propose a mechanism for simplifying the text.⋅ 1