Text simplification (TS) reduces the complexity of the text to improve its readability and
understandability, while possibly retaining its original information content. Over time, TS has …

Automatic text simplification is a research field in computational linguistics that studies
methods and techniques to simplify textual content. Text simplification methods should …

This work presents Keep it Simple (KiS), a new approach to unsupervised text simplification
which learns to balance a reward across three properties: fluency, salience and simplicity …

Even in highly-developed countries, as many as 15–30% of the population can only
understand texts written using a basic vocabulary. Their understanding of everyday texts is …

In the age of knowledge, the democratisation of information facilitated through the Internet
may not be as pervasive if written language poses challenges to particular sectors of the …

According to the official adult literacy report conducted in 24 highly-developed countries,
more than 50% adults, on average, can only understand basic vocabulary, short sentences …

We present an approach for recursively splitting and rephrasing complex English sentences
into a novel semantic hierarchy of simplified sentences, with each of them presenting a more …

The application of the easy-to-read (E2R) methodology is one of the ways to achieve
cognitive accessibility and specifically, it is a path that guarantees the right of access to …

Automatically generating animation from natural language text finds application in a number
of areas eg movie script writing, instructional videos, and public safety. However, translating …

The usage of large pre-trained language models like BERT and GPT has brought a
transformative impact on various natural language processing (NLP) tasks in recent times …