Supporting the Adaptation of Texts for Poor Literacy Readers: A Text Simplification Editor for Brazilian Portuguese

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 34-42

  Candido, Arnaldo ^a   Maziero, Erick ^a   Gasperin, Caroline ^a   Pardo, Thiago A S ^a   Specia, Lucia ^a   Aluisio, Sandra M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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AUTHORING SYSTEMS; DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY FOR EDUCATION; THREE FOLDS;

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