Fostering digital inclusion and accessibility: the PorSimples project for simplification of Portuguese texts

Authors:
Sandra Maria Aluísio;Caroline Gasperin
Affiliations:
University of São Paulo, São Carlos/SP, Brazil;University of São Paulo, São Carlos/SP, Brazil
Venue:
YIWCALA '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Young Investigators Workshop on Computational Approaches to Languages of the Americas
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In this paper we present the PorSimples project, whose aim is to develop text adaptations tools for Brazilian Portuguese. The tools developed cater for both people at poor literacy levels and authors that want to produce texts for this audience. Here we describe the tools and resources developed over two years of this project and point directions for future work and collaboration. Since Portuguese and Spanish have many aspects in common, we believe our main point for collaboration lies in transferring our knowledge and experience to researches willing to developed simplification and elaboration tools for Spanish.