A hybrid system for spanish text simplification

3rd Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, SLPAT 2012 at the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 75-84

  Bott, Stefan ^a   Saggion, Horacio ^a   Figueroa, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b Asi soft   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WEB SERVICES;

COGNITIVE DISABILITY; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; RULE BASED; SERVICES ARCHITECTURES; SUPPORT MODULES; TARGET GROUP; WEB SERVICE APPLICATIONS;

HYBRID SYSTEMS;

EID: 85055823392     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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