28.4094, Books: Automatic Text Simplification: Saggion

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Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 11:28:46
From: David Schlangen [schlangen at morganclaypool.com]
Subject: Automatic Text Simplification: Saggion

 


Title: Automatic Text Simplification 
Series Title: Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies edited by Graeme Hirst  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
	   http://www.morganclaypool.com
	

Book URL: http://www.morganclaypoolpublishers.com/catalog_Orig/product_info.php?products_id=1058 


Author: Horacio Saggion

Electronic: ISBN:  9781627058698 Pages: 137 Price: U.S. $ 39.96
Paperback: ISBN:  9781627058681 Pages: 137 Price: U.S. $ 49.95


Abstract:

Thanks to the availability of texts on the Web in recent years, increased
knowledge and information have been made available to broader audiences.
However, the way in which a text is written—its vocabulary, its syntax—can be
difficult to read and understand for many people, especially those with poor
literacy, cognitive or linguistic impairment, or those with limited knowledge
of the language of the text. Texts containing uncommon words or long and
complicated sentences can be difficult to read and understand by people as
well as difficult to analyze by machines. Automatic text simplification is the
process of transforming a text into another text which, ideally conveying the
same message, will be easier to read and understand by a broader audience. The
process usually involves the replacement of difficult or unknown phrases with
simpler equivalents and the transformation of long and syntactically complex
sentences into shorter and less complex ones. Automatic text simplification, a
research topic which started 20 years ago, now has taken on a central role in
natural language processing research not only because of the interesting
challenges it possesses but also because of its social implications. This book
presents past and current research in text simplification, exploring key
issues including automatic readability assessment, lexical simplification, and
syntactic simplification. It also provides a detailed account of machine
learning techniques currently used in simplification, describes full systems
designed for specific languages and target audiences, and offers available
resources for research and development together with text simplification
evaluation techniques.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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