Automatic summarization for text simplification: evaluating text understanding by poor readers

Authors:
Paulo R. A. Margarido;Thiago A. S. Pardo;Gabriel M. Antonio;Vinícius B. Fuentes;Rachel Aires;Sandra M. Aluísio;Renata P. M. Fortes
Affiliations:
Universidade de São Paulo and Núcleo Interinstitucional de Lingüística Computacional (NILC);Universidade de São Paulo and Núcleo Interinstitucional de Lingüística Computacional (NILC);Universidade de São Paulo and Intermidia Laboratory;Universidade de São Paulo and Intermidia Laboratory;Universidade de São Paulo and Núcleo Interinstitucional de Lingüística Computacional (NILC);Universidade de São Paulo and Núcleo Interinstitucional de Lingüística Computacional (NILC);Universidade de São Paulo and Intermidia Laboratory
Venue:
Companion Proceedings of the XIV Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web
Year:
2008

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Abstract

In this paper we present experiments on summarization and text simplification for poor readers, more specifically, functional illiteracy readers. We test several summarizers and use summaries as the basis of simplification strategies. We show that each simplification approach has different effects on readers of varied levels of literacy, but that all of them do improve text understanding at some level.