Democracy made easy: simplifying complex topics to enable democratic participation
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- dc.contributor.author Khallaf, Nouran
- dc.contributor.author Bott, Stefan Markus
- dc.contributor.author Eugeni, Carlo
- dc.contributor.author O'Flaherty, John
- dc.contributor.author Sharoff, Serge
- dc.contributor.author Saggion, Horacio
- dc.date.accessioned 2025-09-04T06:40:32Z
- dc.date.available 2025-09-04T06:40:32Z
- dc.date.issued 2025
- dc.description.abstract Several groups of people are excluded from democratic deliberation because the language used in this context may be too difficult for them to understand. Our iDEM project aims to reduce existing linguistic barriers in deliberative processes by developing technology to facilitate the translation of complicated text into Easy-to-Read formats that are more suitable for many people. In this paper, we describe classification experiments for detecting different types of difficulties which should be amended in order to make texts easier to understand. We focus on a lexical simplification system that can achieve state-of-the-art results with the use of a free and open-weight large language model for the Romance Languages in our project. Moreover, a sentence segmentation system is introduced to produce text segmentation for long sentences based on training data. Finally, we describe the iDEM mobile app, which will make our technology available as a service for end-users of our target populations.
- dc.description.sponsorship This document is part of a project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program under Grant Agreement No. 101132431 (iDEM Project). The views and opinions expressed in this document are solely those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. The University of Leeds (UOL) was funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee (Grant Agreement No. 10103529).
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- dc.identifier.citation Khallaf N, Bott S, Eugeni C, O'Flaherty J, Sharoff S, Sagion H. Democracy made easy: simplifying complex topics to enable democratic participation. In: Rivas Ginel MI, Cadwell P, Canavese P, Hansen-Schirra S, Kappus M, Matamala A, Noonan W, editors. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Easy and Plain Language in Institutional Contexts (AI & EL/PL), in the 20th Machine Translation Summit; 2025 June 23-27; Geneva, Switzerland. p. 108–24.
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71106
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)
- dc.relation.ispartof Rivas Ginel MI, Cadwell P, Canavese P, Hansen-Schirra S, Kappus M, Matamala A, Noonan W, editors. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Easy and Plain Language in Institutional Contexts (AI & EL/PL), in the 20th Machine Translation Summit; 2025 June 23-27; Geneva, Switzerland.
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- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/HE/10103529
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- dc.subject.keyword Democracy
- dc.subject.keyword Democratic participation
- dc.title Democracy made easy: simplifying complex topics to enable democratic participation
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