The Fewer, the Better? A Contrastive Study about Ways to Simplify
Ruslan Mitkov, Sanja Štajner · 2014
Simplified texts play an important role in providing accessible and easy-to-understand information for a whole range of users who, due to linguistic, developmental or social barriers, would have difficulty in understanding materials which are not adapted and/or simplified.However, the production of simplified texts can be a time-consuming and labour-intensive task.In this paper we show that the employment of a short list of simple simplification rules could result in texts of comparable readability to those written as a result of applying a long list of more fine-grained rules.We also prove that the simplification process based on the short list of simple rules is more time efficient and consistent.