Susana Bautista


2017

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Exploring the Behavior of Classic REG Algorithms in the Description of Characters in 3D Images
Gonzalo Méndez | Raquel Hervás | Susana Bautista | Adrián Rabadán | Teresa Rodríguez
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation

Describing people and characters can be very useful in different contexts, such as computational narrative or image description for the visually impaired. However, a review of the existing literature shows that the automatic generation of people descriptions has not received much attention. Our work focuses on the description of people in snapshots from a 3D environment. First, we have conducted a survey to identify the way in which people describe other people under different conditions. We have used the information extracted from this survey to design several Referring Expression Generation algorithms which produce similar results. We have evaluated these algorithms with users in order to identify which ones generate the best description for specific characters in different situations. The evaluation has shown that, in order to generate good descriptions, a combination of different algorithms has to be used depending on the features and situation of the person to be described.

2014

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Can Numerical Expressions Be Simpler? Implementation and Demostration of a Numerical Simplification System for Spanish
Susana Bautista | Horacio Saggion
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)

Information in newspapers is often showed in the form of numerical expressions which present comprehension problems for many people, including people with disabilities, illiteracy or lack of access to advanced technology. The purpose of this paper is to motivate, describe, and demonstrate a rule-based lexical component that simplifies numerical expressions in Spanish texts. We propose an approach that makes news articles more accessible to certain readers by rewriting difficult numerical expressions in a simpler way. We will showcase the numerical simplification system with a live demo based on the execution of our components over different texts, and which will consider both successful and unsuccessful simplification cases.

2013

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A System for the Simplification of Numerical Expressions at Different Levels of Understandability
Susana Bautista | Raquel Hervás | Pablo Gervás | Richard Power | Sandra Williams
Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Improving Textual Accessibility

2011

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Experimental Identification of the Use of Hedges in the Simplification of Numerical Expressions
Susana Bautista | Raquel Hervás | Pablo Gervás | Richard Power | Sandra Williams
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies