Empirical Identification of Text Simplification Strategies for Reading-Impaired People

Susana Bautista, Le oacute n Carlos, Herv aacute s Raquel, Gerv aacute s Pablo · IOS Press eBooks · 2011

Objective. The way in which information is written or presented can exclude many people, especially those who have problems to read, write or understand. However, the process of simplifying texts by hand is extremely time and effort consuming so any attempts to automate part of this process can leverage the access to information. The final objective of this research is the development of an automatic system that eases the process of text adaptation for reading-impaired people.

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