Challenging choices for text simplification

Authors:
Caroline Gasperin;Erick Maziero;Sandra M. Aluísio
Affiliations:
NILC - Núcleo Interinstitucional de Linguística Computacional ICMC, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil;NILC - Núcleo Interinstitucional de Linguística Computacional ICMC, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil;NILC - Núcleo Interinstitucional de Linguística Computacional ICMC, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
Venue:
PROPOR'10 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In this paper we discuss particular choices we made during the development of a rule-based syntactic text simplification system. Such choices concern 1) how to deal with adverbial phrases in order to simplify sentences, and 2) the order in which to apply our set of simplification rules. Adverbial phrases have not been considered by previous work on text simplification, but have a considerable impact on the complexity of a sentence. Considering our whole set of simplification rules, we discuss and compare two different orders in which to apply them: empirical and hierarchical.