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  • A deeper exploration of the standard PB-SMT approach to text simplification and its evaluation
    Štajner, Sanja; Béchara, Hannah; Saggion, Horacio (ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), 2015)
    In the last few years, there has been a growing number of studies addressing the Text Simplification (TS) task as a monolingual machine translation (MT) problem which translates from ‘original’ to ‘simple’ language. Motivated ...
  • A multi-layered annotated corpus of scientific papers
    Fisas Elizalde, Beatriz; Ronzano, Francesco; Saggion, Horacio (ELRA (European Language Resources Association), 2016)
    Scientific literature records the research process with a standardized structure and provides the clues to track the progress in a scientific field. Understanding its internal structure and content is of paramount importance ...
  • A web-based text simplification system for English
    Marimon, Montserrat; Ferrés, Daniel; Saggion, Horacio (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN), 2015)
    La simplificación textual consiste en reducir la complejidad léxica y sintáctica de documentos con el fin de mejorar su legibilidad y comprensibilidad. En este trabajo se presenta una demostración de un sistema on-line de ...
  • Able to read my mail: An accessible e-mail client with assistive technology
    Saggion, Horacio; Ferrés, Daniel; Sevens, Leen; Schuurman, Ineke; Ripollés, Marta; Rodríguez, Olga (ACM Association for Computer Machinery, 2017)
    The Able to Include project aims at improving the living conditions of people with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) in key areas of society. One of its focus points concerns improving the integration of ...
  • ALEXSIS: a dataset for lexical simplification in spanish
    Ferrés, Daniel; Saggion, Horacio (European Language Resources, 2022)
    Lexical Simplification is the process of reducing the lexical complexity of a text by replacing difficult words with easier to read (or understand) expressions while preserving the original information and meaning. In ...
  • An adaptable lexical simplification architecture for major ibero-romance languages
    Ferrés, Daniel; Saggion, Horacio; Gómez Guinovart, Xavier (2017)
    Lexical Simplification is the task of reducing the lexical complexity of textual documents by replacing difficult words with easier to read (or understand) expressions while preserving the original meaning. The ...
  • An empirical assessment of citation information in scientific summarization
    Saggion, Horacio; Ronzano, Francesco (Springer, 2016)
    Considering the recent substantial growth of the publication rate of scientific results, nowadays the availability of effective and automated techniques to summarize scientific articles is of utmost importance. In this ...
  • Applying dependency relations to definition extraction
    Espinosa-Anke, Luis; Saggion, Horacio (Springer, 2014)
    Definition Extraction (DE) is the task to automatically identify definitional knowledge in naturally-occurring text. This task has applications in ontology generation, glossary creation or question answering. Although the ...
  • Are emojis predictable?
    Barbieri, Francesco; Ballesteros, Miguel; Saggion, Horacio (ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), 2017)
    Emojis are ideograms which are naturally combined with plain text to visually complement or condense the meaning of a message. Despite being widely used in social media, their underlying semantics have received little ...
  • Argumentation mining in scientific literature: from computational linguistics to biomedicine
    Accuosto, Pablo; Neves, Mariana; Saggion, Horacio (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2021)
    In this work we propose to tackle the limitations posed by the lack of annotated data for argument mining in scientific texts by annotating argumentative units and relations in research abstracts in two scientific domains. ...
  • Automatic detection of sexism in social media with a multilingual approach
    Altin, Lutfiye Seda Mut; Saggion, Horacio (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2021)
    This paper describes the participation of the LaSTUS/TALN team in the shared task EXIST: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks at IberLEF 2021. EXIST promotes the development of classification systems able to spot ...
  • Automatic generation of descriptive related work reports
    AbuRa'ed, Ahmed Ghassan Tawfiq (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-10-16)
    A related work report is a section in a research paper which integrates key information from a list of related scientific papers providing context to the work being presented. Related work reports can either be descriptive ...
  • Automatic related work section generation: experiments in scientific document abstracting
    AbuRa'ed, Ahmed Ghassan Tawfiq; Saggion, Horacio; Shvets, Alexander; Bravo Serrano, Àlex, 1984- (Springer, 2020)
    Related work sections or literature reviews are an essential part of every scientific article being crucial for paper reviewing and assessment. However, writing a good related work section is an activity which requires ...
  • Challenges with sign language datasets for sign language recognition and translation
    De Sisto, Mirella; Vandeghinste, Vincent; Egea Gómez, Santiago; De Coster, Mathieu; Shterionov, Dimitar; Saggion, Horacio (European Language Resources Association, 2022)
    Sign Languages (SLs) are the primary means of communication for at least half a million people in Europe alone. However, the development of SL recognition and translation tools is slowed down by a series of obstacles ...
  • Controllable sentence simplification with a unified text-to-text transfer transformer
    Sheang, Kim Cheng; Saggion, Horacio (ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), 2021)
    Recently, a large pre-trained language model called T5 (A Unified Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer) has achieved state-of-the-art performance in many NLP tasks. However, no study has been found using this pre-trained model ...
  • Corpus-based sentence deletion and split decisions for Spanish text simplification
    Stajner, Sanja; Drndarevic, Biljana; Saggion, Horacio (Centro de Investigación en Computación, 2013)
    This study addresses the automatic simplification of texts in Spanish in order to make them more accessible to people with cognitive disabilities. A corpus analysis of original and manually simplified news articles was ...
  • Cross-lingual semantic annotation of biomedical literature: experiments in Spanish and English
    Perez, Naiara; Accuosto, Pablo; Bravo Serrano, Àlex, 1984-; Cuadros Oller, Montse; Martínez-Garcia, Eva; Saggion, Horacio; Rigau Claramunt, German (Oxford University Press, 2019)
    Motivation Biomedical literature is one of the most relevant sources of information for knowledge mining in the field of Bioinformatics. In spite of English being the most widely addressed language in the field; in ...
  • DEFEXT: a semi supervised definition extraction tool
    Espinosa-Anke, Luis; Carlini, Roberto; Saggion, Horacio; Ronzano, Francesco (European Language Resources Association, 2016)
    We present DEFEXT, an easy to use semi supervised Definition Extraction Tool. DEFEXT is designed to extract from a target corpus those textual fragments where a term is explicitly mentioned together with its core features, ...
  • Definition extraction using sense-based embeddings
    Espinosa-Anke, Luis; Saggion, Horacio; Delli Bovi, Claudio (CEUR, 2015)
    De nition Extraction is the task to identify snippets of free text in which/na term is de ned. While lexicographic studies have proposed di erent de nition typologies and categories, most NLP tasks aimed at revealing word ...
  • Descripción y evaluación de un sistema de extracción de definiciones para el catalán
    Saggion, Horacio; Espinosa-Anke, Luis (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN), 2014)
    La extracción automática de defniciones (ED) es una tarea que consiste/nen identifcar defniciones en texto. Este artículo presenta un método para la identi-/nficación de definiciones para el catalán en el dominio enciclopédico, ...