TEXT SIMPLIFICATION USING DEPENDENCY PARSING FOR SPANISH

Miguel Ballesteros, Susana Bautista, Pablo Gervás

2010

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the task of text simplification for Spanish. Our purpose is a system to simplified text based on rules using dependency parsing. Our main motivation is the need for text simplification to facilitate accessibility to information by poor readers and by people with cognitive disabilities. This study consists of the first step towards building Spanish text simplification systems helping to create easy-to-read texts.

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Ballesteros M., Bautista S. and Gervás P. (2010). TEXT SIMPLIFICATION USING DEPENDENCY PARSING FOR SPANISH . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-28-7, pages 330-335. DOI: 10.5220/0003115803300335


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@conference{kdir10,
author={Miguel Ballesteros and Susana Bautista and Pablo Gervás},
title={TEXT SIMPLIFICATION USING DEPENDENCY PARSING FOR SPANISH},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={330-335},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003115803300335},
isbn={978-989-8425-28-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2010)
TI - TEXT SIMPLIFICATION USING DEPENDENCY PARSING FOR SPANISH
SN - 978-989-8425-28-7
AU - Ballesteros M.
AU - Bautista S.
AU - Gervás P.
PY - 2010
SP - 330
EP - 335
DO - 10.5220/0003115803300335