Towards Automatic Lexical Simplification in Spanish: An Empirical Study

NAACL-HLT 2012 - Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations, PITR 2012, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 8-16

  Drndarević, Biljana ^a   Saggion, Horacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

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COGNITIVE DISABILITY; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; LEXICAL UNIT; NAMED ENTITIES; PARALLEL CORPORA; SET OF RULES;

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