@inproceedings{di-buono-2026-italian,
    title = "{I}talian Medical Term Simplification: From Patient Information Leaflets to Simplified Language Resources",
    author = "di Buono, Maria Pia",
    editor = "Gupta, Deepak  and
      Thompson, Paul  and
      Ananiadou, Sophia  and
      Demner-Fushman, Dina",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing ({CL}4{H}ealth) @ {LREC} 2026",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma, Mallorca (Spain)",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/paragraph-normalization/2026.cl4health-1.17/",
    doi = "10.63317/27j5nmzxz6u7",
    pages = "182--189",
    abstract = "Terminological simplification in patient information leaflets (PILs) is implemented through a variety of linguistic strategies. Although these strategies help improve text comprehensibility, their overall impact remains limited. The complexity of PILs is still influenced by multiple factors, including frequent cross-referential terminology, the presence of subordinate clauses, lengthy sentences, and the use of domain-specific terms. This paper introduces I-MTS (Italian Medical Term Simplification), the first resource specifically developed for medical term simplification in Italian. I-MTS is designed to support research on lexical simplification and to facilitate the automatic adaptation of medical texts for non-expert audiences, thereby enhancing the readability and accessibility of health information in Italian."
}