Summary of the paper
| Title | Can Numerical Expressions Be Simpler? Implementation and Demonstration of a Numerical Simplification System for Spanish |
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| Authors | Susana Bautista and Horacio Saggion |
| Abstract | Information in newspapers is often showed in the form of numerical expressions which present comprehension problems for many people, including people with disabilities, illiteracy or lack of access to advanced technology. The purpose of this paper is to motivate, describe, and demonstrate a rule-based lexical component that simplifies numerical expressions in Spanish texts. We propose an approach that makes news articles more accessible to certain readers by rewriting difficult numerical expressions in a simpler way. We will showcase the numerical simplification system with a live demo based on the execution of our components over different texts, and which will consider both successful and unsuccessful simplification cases. |
| Topics | Collaborative Resource Construction, Grammar and Syntax |
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Can Numerical Expressions Be Simpler? Implementation and Demonstration of a Numerical Simplification System for Spanish |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{BAUTISTA14.330, author = {Susana Bautista and Horacio Saggion}, title = {Can Numerical Expressions Be Simpler? Implementation and Demonstration of a Numerical Simplification System for Spanish}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)}, year = {2014}, month = {may}, date = {26-31}, address = {Reykjavik, Iceland}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Hrafn Loftsson and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4}, language = {english} } |