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== Abstract ==
== Abstract ==


In this talk, I will be reviewing the literature about text simplification. I will also describe some of my initial and current work in text simplification with educational purposes. This talk will be given to fulfill the Natural Language Processing Project course requirements.
Text simplification is a field that can be useful for many applications because it can improve text readability and help in NLP tasks. Thus, I will give a brief overview about this field. Then, I will talk about the specific problem that we are trying to solve, which is the creation of a text simplification system with educational purposes. We have the simplification of Geography and History texts of 7 th to 8th written in Portuguese to 3 th and 4 th graders as initial goal. Given the complexity of this problem, we decided to break it into subtasks. Hence, we are exploring ways of performing the most frequent syntactic simplification: splitting sentences.  I will also discuss about the initial work, such as the creation of simplified corpora, adaptation/creation of splitting sentence classifiers and I will compare with similar work developed for English and Brazilian Portuguese.
 


'''Note:''' This seminar will be held in English, if required.
'''Note:''' This seminar will be held in English, if required.


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Latest revision as of 16:06, 23 December 2010

Luís Marujo
Luís Marujo

Date

  • 15:00, Friday, November 26th, 2010
  • Room 336

Speaker

Abstract

Text simplification is a field that can be useful for many applications because it can improve text readability and help in NLP tasks. Thus, I will give a brief overview about this field. Then, I will talk about the specific problem that we are trying to solve, which is the creation of a text simplification system with educational purposes. We have the simplification of Geography and History texts of 7 th to 8th written in Portuguese to 3 th and 4 th graders as initial goal. Given the complexity of this problem, we decided to break it into subtasks. Hence, we are exploring ways of performing the most frequent syntactic simplification: splitting sentences. I will also discuss about the initial work, such as the creation of simplified corpora, adaptation/creation of splitting sentence classifiers and I will compare with similar work developed for English and Brazilian Portuguese.

Note: This seminar will be held in English, if required.