Presentation of the Simplext project

1. Project presentation María Elena Gómez Martínez Project Coordinator - Technosite Liderado por:

2. Project presentation Contents Consortium Context and Objectives Research lines Corpus Expected outcomes Innovation lines

3. Project presentation Consortium Con la certificación:

4. Project presentation Context A Easy to Read Text… Use a simple and direct language. Express only one idea by phrase. Avoid technical expressions, abbreviations and acronyms. Be structured in a clear and coherent manner. Avoid unnecessary ideas, words, sentences and phrases.

5. Project presentation Context Addressed to people with… Cognitive disability. Another kind of disability which affects the comprehension ability. Low literacy. Economics, social or ethnic issues. Different mother tongue from the residence community.

6. Project presentation Objective To enable text automatic simplification for easy reading by people who need this adaptation and generation, in technology, product support and applications that allow the use of this service.

7. Project presentation Research lines Easy reading Natural Language Processing Principles of Text Simplification Assistive Technologies Software as a Service Accessibility and Usability

8. Project presentation Corpus The choice of texts, which define the automatic simplification rules, will define the application context of the developed assistive technologies . In this project, the news text are chosen.

9. Project presentation Specific objectives Natural language processing tools to the simplification of Spanish news texts. Analysis of linguistic and paralinguistic aspects to improve the legibility. Corpus design. Lexicographical tools and lexical databases. Development of an assistive technology to integrate the simplification component with user devices. Evaluation of reading comprehension levels. Validation of usability and accessibility aspects. Dissemination of outcomes.

10. Project presentation Innovation lines Corpus News text. Government (Justice, etc.). Health care system Technology Cloud computing Interoperability Accessible Interfaces