A web-based text simplification system for English

Marimon, Montserrat; Ferrés, Daniel; Saggion, Horacio

A web-based text simplification system for English

Citation

Ferrés D; Marimon M; Saggion H. A Web-based Text Simplification System for English. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. 2015;55:191-94.

Abstract

Text Simplification is the task of reducing the lexical and syntactic complexity of documents in order to improve their readability and understandability. This paper presents a web-based demonstration of a text simplification system that performs state-of-the-art lexical and syntactic simplification of English texts. The core simplification technology used for this demonstration is highly customizable making it suitable for diferent types of users.