Carroll, J., G. Minnen, D. Pearce, Y. Canning, S. Devlin and J. Tait (1999) `Simplifying text for language-impaired readers'. In Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Bergen, Norway. 269-270.
Automatic text simplification for language-impaired readers is a relatively unexplored area in natural language processing. We describe a generic system for text simplification (currently at the prototype stage) incorporating a range of state-of-the-art language processing tools. We are applying the system to help people with aphasia (various language impairments, typically occurring as a result of a stroke or head injury) to understand English newspaper articles.
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