Abstract
We present a browser-based editor for simplifying English text. Given an input sentence, the editor performs both syntactic and lexical simplification. It splits a complex sentence into shorter ones, and suggests word substitutions in drop-down lists. The user can choose the best substitution from the list, undo any inappropriate splitting, and further edit the sentence as necessary. A significant novelty is that the system accepts a customized vocabulary list for a target reader population. It identifies all words in the text that do not belong to the list, and attempts to substitute them with words from the list, thus producing a text tailored for the targeted readers.- Anthology ID:
- C16-2020
- Volume:
- Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Osaka, Japan
- Editor:
- Hideo Watanabe
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
- Note:
- Pages:
- 93–97
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/C16-2020
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- John Lee, Wenlong Zhao, and Wenxiu Xie. 2016. A Customizable Editor for Text Simplification. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 93–97, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Customizable Editor for Text Simplification (Lee et al., COLING 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/improve-issue-templates/C16-2020.pdf